Illinois State is tomorrow and I'm stuck in Macomb "volunteering for the Senior Olympics. They already say they're swamped with volunteers but I got to stay for classes. This really blows. Illinois State is probably the closest meet but I'll be at conference (5 hour drive to Kansas City).
Nightlife in Macomb was fun. About half of the pics were in the afternoon since my subject started around 4. I ended up turning most of the pics I edited black and white but left this one becasue of the beer. Just didn't look right in b&w. Got home around midnight and realized most of the pics were from the afternoon so drove out to the square and shot around. Got a bunch of drunk people wanting pics and then just general things like cops, hot dog and pizza guys and so on. Got back home around 3:30am. It was my first time trying to get a photo essay together and I definitely need a lot more work.
This guy came to Western yesterday. I guess he was controversal becasue there was a lot of security and bags searched before entering.
Got there at 8:50 for the start of Javelin but covered the Hammer instead. The meet finally ended at about 6 with Discus but overall, I would say I had a pretty good day of shooting. My photo editor was supposed to be there but he had other assignments. I mostly messed around since I had no experience shooting an outddor meet with a DSLR except Thursday and Friday. I wouldn't really call most of the stuff I did creative but I'm happy with how some of it turned out.
The meet was moved to Sunday and the weather was great. Nice and sunny too which made for crisp pics. Anyways, I edited pics till 11 and I really should get some sleep. Hope I get to more outddor meets.
PS- also submitted my pics to Hope from MID CON(our schools conference to try and get to shoot the conference meet but since its so late, I doubt it.
I hate school.
We had the first 2 days of the Lee Calhoun Invitational. Shooting with a DSLR is SO much easier. If I had more than a kit lens, might be able to get less DOF and better pictures but I'll work with what I can get. The meet was supposed to be today but got moved to Sunday because of weather. I need to get the 2GB card sometime tonight or else its going to be rough shooting tommorow with the 512. Hope its not too cloudy!
