High school Football

It has been a while since I've shot a high school football game.

2 years actually.

Midland Online had me shooting high school sports for them for a little while. I had forgot how much fun these games were. My fiance has a brother who plays for Caro, Brant Miller, Junior. So I grab a Nikon D3 with a 200mm f.2 and prepared myself for the worst lighting conditions imaginable.

High school football games are usually good for about the hour and then the light just falls off quick. Here are a few shots, I was a little rusty.

Backup, Backup, Backup files....

This is something worth writing about...

Today I was sitting in the office at SVSU (Saginaw Valley State University) when I got the screen of death.


Nightmare.

This is why you take the extra 20 minutes at most to backup all your files. Technology is great and wonderful but NOT 100% reliable. However, I didn't backup my catalog for about 3 months so all the edits I had made is Lightroom were lost.

Lucky.

For me I happen to batch process a lot of my work. Through Onone plug-in you can edit copies of your originals and stack with the originals. Therefore, all my edited copies were saved. I had to create a new catalog and import images from disk. I read something interesting about automatically writing edits into XMP. That way if your catalog gets corrupted then when you re-import your images all your edits will be saved.


No images were lost and minimal time was wasted.

Thank you Lord.

Shell and Ed

Earlier this week I squeezed in a quick photo shoot for some friends. Here are some of the best shots Emily and I got.

Hilary and Stephen

Greg and Annie

Coming to an End

The trip is coming to a close. It was fun and a very intense 6 days. Lots of the students were wore out by Saturday and stayed inside most of the day. I was able to get a little shopping done and buy gifts for the loved ones. The markets here get crazy but there are some great deals if you know where to look. My flight is at 7 am, so I have a 5 am taxi ride to the airport. Off to bed.

Highlight: Well, not really, some how the sound on my MacBook Pro stopped working and is glowing red, and my Canon 5D Mark II is broken and wont turn on (that is why you dont travel with one camera body, thankfully the Canon Mark III is going strong)

Day trip Arezzo, Italy...still

Here are a few shots from Arezzo and Florence since I forgot to post a few from Florence. Today was a day trip to Arezzo where shopping is closed from 1:30pm to 4:00 pm. It was a good time just walking around checking out the town. The food was wonderful today: salad with boiled egg and crab.

Highlight: Chillin' with the students for dinner at their apartment.