Thursday, October 12, 2006

gymnasium photography

So, I had a photo date set up with Rob for tonight, which we were talking about last week before I found out about my massive calculus midterm tomorrow. I am way too good of a friend, so instead of studying like a good boy, I went out and took some pictures in our school's alternate gymnasium. We had a guy Rob sorta-kinda knew from the basketball pickup games let us in. The gym was completely empty; it was just us, our cameras, and the net. We messed around with a party strobe light Rob brought along but quickly found it was not bright enough for our needs. I brought out the trusty SB-600 I bought a few weeks ago, and fired it up.

After much goofing off and running around the pitch-black gym (we even covered the red exit signs with our jackets), we set up the tripods and started shooting away. Here's what we came up with:



It was crazy. We had some fun shots doing cartwheels in the strobe, dunking with the flash, and just running around, flash in hand, firing away. The shot above was a 4 second exposure with the aperture set at 3.5 (to let the most light in) and the flash fired manually a few feet from the camera. Oh yeah, also set at ISO 400.

All in all, it was a lot of trial and error, but we learned a lot and can't wait to go back and do it again.

So now after my crazy adrenaline rush of jumping around in a gym all night, I get to study for what is probably going to be the hardest test I've ever taken in my life.

I'm surprisingly calm. I wonder if I'm still in shock that it's in less than 12 hours?