SOU vs. Montreat College
Another shot today from last week’s victory over Montreat College… Angelica Cahee and Haley Newell are on defense in this one.
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SOU Women’s Basketball
Josi McDermott
I tried out a new lens this past Tuesday at the Southern Oregon University women’s basketball game. The Nikon 85mm f/1.4 D produced the above result at an aperture of 1.4 and a shutter speed of just 1/1250 of a second (an exposure time I’m not used to indoors with gym lighting). I didn’t even need to bump the ISO up very high to get that kind of shutter speed. This is at an ISO of 800. Needless to say, I’m very happy with the results. The isolation and sharpness of the subject, while leaving the background in a state of creamy bliss, is just what I was hoping for.
Click on the photo for an even larger view to see just how sharp Josi was captured.
SOU Volleyball come-from-behind victory (part 3 of 3)
Let's see now, where were we? Oh yeah, the deciding match goes to 15, but you have to win by 2 points. The Coyotes made it to 15 first, but the Raiders tied it up once again.
16-16 score, games tied at 2 wins each
Angela Spieker saved this one with a diving effort
Things couldn’t have become, or stayed, any closer. This was some serious, nail-biting action.
Haley Fikso makes it 18-17 with this kill.
19-17 final score in 5th set
Everyone goes wild with the SOU, upset victory
Raiders vs. Coyotes (part 2 of 3)
Angela Spieker sets up another kill for the SOU Raiders
Megan Bartling with the kill. College of Idaho blockers can't make the block.
SOU celebrates the kill
Another celebration after a Natalie Scheller kill
From about 5-5 on in the deciding match no team could get more than a point ahead.
12-12 score, games tied at 2 wins each
14-14 score, games tied at 2 wins each
SOU Soccer
Ashland had some nice weather on Thursday of last week so I headed over to the soccer field to watch the SOU ladies dominate the Trinity Lutheran University visiting team. After a generous crop and rotation I came up with the above image. However, I’m not sure if I like the “corrected” photo better than the original (below). What do you think?
BTW, this is Maddy Scott. My favorite part of the picture is when you make it larger by clicking on it you can see bits of airborne grass from the kick that have yet to settle.
SOU Raider football has three wins in a row
Today’s photo sequence is from the first of those three wins. My Nikon D7000 can take up to 7 photos per second which allows this type of photography. With no big screen down on the field, taking a series of photos of the big plays and then watching them back on my camera was the best replay in the house.
Today is the day we kick off another school year at SOU
Southern Oregon University Raiders
Colin Amsler kicks off for SOU
Photos taken at Saturday’s football game in Ashland against Webber International University.
SOU softball
Yesterday we had beautiful weather so I headed out to the SOU softball field to check out a game and test out my new camera. Several years ago I took pictures at an SOU softball game and there were no problems in terms of field access (not that you could go on the field or anything like that, but you could go down, 10 feet or so off the foul lines, behind a fence you could take photos over). Things have changed since then; now you can’t get close to the field, and you have to shoot through fencing. Needless to say, you can’t get very good shots with those restrictions in place. My Nikon D7000 was able to focus on the players through the fence, but the images through metal wires are never going to be spectacular. I hope they make things more photographer friendly again.
Softball
I took my first swings of the year yesterday. Felt great. They weren’t at the field pictured above, which is where we have our games in Medford. They were in Ashland at the Iowa Street fields. The view was beautiful. It looked like this as the snow from a few days back has yet to melt on the top of Grizzly Peak. Alas, I didn’t have my camera with me so I have no real photos of the day.