SOU Women’s Rugby Club

Men’s Rugby vs. OIT today on the field off of Iowa Street at 11 a.m.

Posted on November 1st, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: rugby, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Rugby

SOU women’s basketball – Bree Park

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SOU’s basketball season kicks off today with the women’s game at 5:30 and the men’s game at 7:30 in Ashland. The women’s team is the pre-season pick to win the conference, and the men should contend too. Conference games won’t begin until December.

If you can’t make today’s games due to Halloween festivities or other pre-planned conflicts, they will also be playing at the same times on Saturday.

Posted on October 31st, 2014 under only in ashland. Tags: basketball, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on Halloween Basketball

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.

Posted on October 29th, 2014 under nature, only in ashland, photography. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, ashland high school, grizzly peak, Nikon D750, photography, rainbow, raw vs. jpg jpeg, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on RAW vs jpg (#6 or 7 or something)

SOU Raiders – football and basketball schedules

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Posted on October 29th, 2014 under only in ashland. Tags: basketball, football, joel spear, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on Big sports weekend

Ashland High School volleyball against South Medford

Game time is 6:30. If Ashland wins they will hit the road on Saturday for a game against a top eight team to see who gets to go on to the State Championship in Hillsboro the following weekend.

Posted on October 28th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, ashland high school, ellie, Nikon D750, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on Ashland High School volleyball against South Albany tonight

SOU football – Tyler Rogers #5

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As I predicted on Saturday, the Raiders are back to #5 in the national rankings. If they can crack the top four by the end of the regular season they can have home games for the first round and quarterfinals of the NAIA playoffs. #3 Grand View may lose next week in a tough road match up. #4 Faulkner has a difficult road game the following week too. Things look good if the Raiders continue to win.

This Saturday’s game is in Ashland against #21 Rocky Mountain.

Posted on October 27th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: football, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Back to #5

SOU Soccer – Kelsey Randall

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Kelsey Randall had two goals and an assist to lead the Raiders to a 5-1 win over OIT this afternoon. The Raiders will be on the road (Corban) for the first round of the Cascade Conference tournament on November 5.

Posted on October 25th, 2014 under people. Tags: Kelsey Randall, Raider Athletics, soccer, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University over Oregon Tech in soccer

SOU football – Melvin Mason

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The Southern Oregon University football team had no problem breaking the College of Idaho’s undefeated-at-home winning streak today. Details of the game can be found here. Melvin Mason averaged nearly 7 yards per carry while rushing the ball 12 times today.

It’s that time of the season in which scoreboard watching comes into play. If the Raiders can crack the top four in the rankings by the end of the season, they will earn the right to host several possible playoff games. Currently SOU sits at #7 in the coach’s poll, the only poll that counts. #2 Baker lost today and #6 Georgetown barely won against an unranked, previously 2-5 team. The odds look pretty good that the Raiders will come in at #5 when Monday’s poll is released with three regular season games to play.

Posted on October 25th, 2014 under people. Tags: football, melvin mason, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Raiders crush Yotes on road for 7-1 record

SOU volleyball – Emma Gasman

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Raiders won last night. Story here. Tonight’s game in Ashland is at 5 p.m.

Ashland High School hosts a volleyball tournament today too. They play beginning at 11 a.m. State championship playoffs begin Tuesday night in Ashland.

Posted on October 25th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Emma Gasman, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, the whole picture, volleyball. Comments Off on The Whole Picture (part 7)