SOU Men’s Basketball Senior Night with Coach Brian McDermott and David Sturner’s family

Last night was the last regular season home basketball games at SOU. Since both teams won there is a good chance that there will be at least one home game in the Cascade Conference Playoffs. They still have three games to go on the road before we know for sure.

Due to it being the possible final performances in front of the home crowd, it was also senior night. Two women and five men were honored. The men were given poster boards with a bunch of my photos on them. David Sturner was checking out the pics you can see below in the above photo.

David Sturner

Posted on February 9th, 2014 under only in ashland, people, photography. Tags: basketball, david sturner, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University. Comments: 4

SOU Men’s Basketball vs OIT
David Sturner dunk before sold out crowd

Both the souraiders.com site and CCC site have published a cropped version of this photo. I want you to have the whole picture, complete with the rim, ball, Sturner’s hands, feet, etc.

I have over 800 photos from tonight’s big games. How many do you want to see?

You can view the photo of the crowd’s reaction to this dunk by following my Facebook page.

Posted on January 19th, 2014 under only in ashland, people, photography. Tags: basketball, david sturner, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on The Whole Picture (part 4)

Today’s pics are for a project I’m doing with a middle school student. The student took the photos, and I’m posting them here merely so that we can look at them next to each other to talk about.

Kyle Tedder (no edit)

Kyle Tedder (student edit)

Kyle Tedder (my edit)

Jeff Bush (no edit)

Jeff Bush (student edit)

Jeff Bush (my edit)

David Sturner (no edit)

David Sturner (student edit)

David Sturner (my edit)

Posted on January 14th, 2014 under people, photography. Tags: basketball, david sturner, kyle tedder, Raider Athletics. Comments Off on Editing basketball pics

SOU football
Dylan Young with the catch

The Raider Football Team ends their season on the road this weekend. Today’s photo is from last Saturday’s home finale vs. Eastern Oregon University.

Posted on November 12th, 2013 under only in ashland, photography. Tags: dylan young, football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on Freezing the moment

original image (before)

SOU Women’s Basketball
Kristen Schoenherr
(After “Brightness” increased)

Posted on November 2nd, 2013 under only in ashland, people, photography. Tags: basketball, Kristen Schoenherr, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, sigma 85mm f/1.4, sports photography. Comments Off on Increase brightness during post processing for gym lighting conditions

Megan McArthur follows up an SOU shot on OIT’s keeper (Rebekah Matteri) last week

Game time for today’s match up in Ashland is 3 p.m.

Posted on October 3rd, 2013 under only in ashland, people, photography. Tags: megan mcarthur, Nikkor 70-300mm VR, Nikon D600, soccer, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU Women’s Soccer game against Northwest Christian today

The Milky Way over Beatty, Oregon

I spent a couple nights over Labor Day Weekend at a friend’s ranch in Beatty, about two and a half hours east of Ashland. With no moon, clear skies, and no sizable population within 30+ miles the Milky Way was quite visible with the naked eye.

I am between tripods at the moment so I had to prop my camera up in some old manure to get this shot, a 15 second exposure (to avoid star trails) @ 24mm. Next time I will be sure to have a tripod and my 14-24mm lens so I can go for a 30 second exposure without star trails for hopefully better results.

Posted on September 3rd, 2013 under outside of ashland, photography. Tags: beatty, night photography, Nikon D600, Nikon Nikkor Wide-angle lens 24 mm F/2.8 D AF. Comments Off on Milky Way

Mini cupcakes decorated with the letter P

To keep things interesting when I do a photo shoot after Jolene bakes something up, I try to use a different lens each time. I think I have used seven different lenses on her sweets now. For the above photo I used my 50mm f/1.2 manual lens. I have only used this lens a couple times since purchasing it over craigslist for a ridiculously low price. I don’t know why I don’t use it more often as it takes fantastic photos with creamy backgrounds at f/1.2. The manual focus is actually a fun change of pace too.

Posted on June 24th, 2013 under only in ashland, photography. Tags: food, jolene's sweets, Nikon 50mm f/1.2 Nikkor AI-S Manual Focus Lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Mini cupcakes from Jolene’s Sweets