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Fun fact #2: When all is said and done, SOU will have played 15 football games this year–50% more games than many teams. Most NAIA teams play 10 or 11 games in a season.
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Raider Photos
SOU Volleyball’s Paulla Pinheiro and Mona Goudarzian
Some of you may have found your way here through the link on souraiders.com. I have had several people email me asking questions about buying prints or about finding all of my photos for a certain sport.
The photos I post here are a small fraction of the photos I actually have. If you would like to print any of the photos on this blog, you are welcome to do so at no charge. Be sure to click on the photo to get to the higher resolution size which will print with more quality. If you want to use them on the web (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.), you are welcome to do so if you link back to traveljapanblog.com/ashland with the photo or link to the photo.
If you would like me to search through all of my photos and send you photos of the particular athlete you are looking for I charge a reasonable fee for the time it takes me to find all of those photos and to process them for you. I do not normally sell prints. I email you the high quality electronic files in .jpg format, and you can do the printing and framing yourself through a local or online service. You can also make photo books or do whatever you like with the pictures. My email is on this page.
To find all of my photos for a particular sport, use the following links. Click on “Older Entries” near the bottom-left of each page to view more photos.
football (includes some AHS and other football photos too)
basketball
softball (includes some non-SOU softball as well)
volleyball (includes some AHS and club volleball photos too)
soccer (includes some AHS and SOU Men’s Club soccer photos too)
wrestling
Karrington Jones interception sequence
Eastern quarterback Zach Bartlow launches a pass
@SOU_Football @SOURaiders @CoachChinSOU
Justin Hernandez is in position to make the catch
but the ball has other ideas
Karrington Jones
RAW vs jpg (#6 or 7 or something)
jpg image, straight out of the camera
I have mentioned several times before that there are situations where images shot as jpgs are “throw aways” that had they been shot in RAW format could be salvaged.
Today’s comparison is one such example. With a rainbow outside a dimly-lit gym, I had the choice of shooting the rainbow and getting a nearly black gym (above) or shooting the action on the court and getting a white sky (not shown). By shooting in RAW I was able to process the above image to come up with what you see below.
Ashland High School volleyball – rainbow out gym window in front of Grizzly Peak
By the way, Ashland won last night, advanced to the Sweet 16 in state, and will be playing in St. Helens on Saturday. The winner moves on to the Elite 8 round.
RedZone Mug Club
Photo taken remotely with Samsung S5 smart phone, Nikon D750, Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G lens
@NikonUSA
My new Nikon D750 has wifi capabilities built into it. Today’s photo is my first test of those capabilities. I installed the Nikon software (wireless mobile utility) on my cell phone, turned the D750’s wi-fi on, set the camera down on my desk, and I was ready to go. I couldn’t change the aperture or shutter speed from my phone, but I could change the focus (by touching the screen) and take the picture without touching the camera. Fun. Now I may actually be able to show up in my own photos on occasion.
SOU Alumni Association 2014-15 Calendar
Southern Oregon University Alumni Association Calendar
The first, annual SOU Alumni Association Calendar for 2014-15 (September 2014 – August 2015) was published last week. If you are already a member, expect it in your mailbox before September. If you aren’t already a member, become one today here. In addition to the calendar, there are lots of other great benefits and discounts for members. Some of them are here.
BTW, five of the months feature my photos of campus life.
Hiking lens
Lower Table Rock lizard
Whenever I go for a hike I face the dilemma of whether or not to bring my camera and if I bring it which lens. Sometimes I just attach a prime 24mm lens to minimize weight and size. But if I had gone that route when we did Lower Table Rock a couple weeks ago I would have missed out on this shot. My 24-120mm comes in very handy in such situations.
Raiders magic number down to two
SOU Softball – Tyler Burke
@SOURaiders The Southern Oregon University softball team won their first game today, 4-1 over Northwest University. They have three games to play and Northwest Christian has two left. Any combination of two Raider wins and/or NCU losses will put the Raiders in the postseason.
My first (not entirely successful) focus stack
This past weekend I was hiking on Upper Table Rock. The ground was covered with wildflowers and snow-covered Mt. McLoughlin looked splendid in the distance. So I took this photo of the wildflowers.
foreground focus
But I wanted a photo with Mount McLoughlin in focus so I took another one.
distant focus
When I got home I was a bit disappointed in each photo.
My photography and Photoshop skills are completely self taught. I have never taken a class, had a tutor/mentor, or even read a book on either subject. I’ve learned merely by trial and error with my camera and trying different things in Photoshop.
So what I wanted to do was combine the above two photos. I did so by using Photomerge (under File/Automate) in Photoshop and unchecking the “Blend Images Together” option. Hit F7 to see the layers if your layers box isn’t already open. Select both images, and use Auto-Blend Layers (under Edit) to stack the images. The result is below.
Photomerged focus stack
It’s not perfect, but now I have a new option at my fingertips in the future. Two things I need to do differently:
1) Take more than two photos. Notice how the finished result is out of focus in the middle. Had I taken three or four photos, each with a different focus point, the entire stacked photo could have been in focus.
2) Maintain the same, or nearly the same, composition (and camera settings–shutter speed, ISO, aperture). I recomposed the scene a bit after taking the first image which doesn’t make for the best stacking conditions later in post.
A more recent focus stack of a similar scene can now be found here.