Only one photos today. This is one of those photos that I look at now and think, "If I only had one more minute, I could have made this perfect!"Alas, I didn't have that extra minute. In fact, this is one of those Needs-To-Be-Shot-In-Under-A-Minute photos. In fact, I'll put a simple version of the story here.
I came into the Emerald office after class at 2:00pm to chill for a little bit before I tried to bare the freezing walk home. Chris says "Hey buddy, want to shoot a feature of Malik at 3:30?" Well, I'm a nice guy.
"Sure," I says.
"Awesome. The story is about the seniors basketball players doing yoga or something. Maybe you can get him to do a 'yoga pose.'"
Now I think to myself, "Self: There is no way any of those guys is going to do a "yoga pose."
So I talked to Sports Reporter Jacob who says, "Yeah, Kevin is writing that. He was supposed to get you an appointment yesterday, so I don't know if he was able to get you one for today. But it is supposed to be before practice. I doubt Malik will want to do a 'yoga pose' though, so just get a feature shot if not."
Great. This is going to be such an opportunity, clearly. Well, after getting my gear, heading to Mac Court and sitting around playing with my lights for half an hour, I called Kevin to let him know nobody was even there.
"Nobody? I made an appointment with the media coordinator. He said he'd be there. Well, wait for a little longer and if they don't show up, we'll just run a shot from a game. I doubt he would have done a 'yoga pose' anyway." Click.
Even better. Luckily, 5 minutes later, here comes Bryce and Maarty up the stairs to the court. Churchill, Cameron. Finally Malik makes his way up.
"Hey, Malik. (Introductions, etc.) So I guess the story is about the group of you guys doing yoga. I was thinking maybe we could do a shot of you doing a yoga pose or something."
Of course, he gets this real awkward look on his face. "Uh, I don't really know any of the poses. Um."
"Well, how about the cheesy cross your legs pose?"
Awkward look again. Crap. "Yeah. I could put my hands like this."
I got psyched until he asked "Where you want to do it at?" I suggested the center of the court, inside the "O". "Uh, maybe somewhere more private. I can't let my coaches see me." Well, that left the hallway by the hot dog/pretzel vendors.
Anyway, to wrap this long story up, I tried a two light setup for once. Vivtar 285 with an optical slave to the right of the frame, my canon strobe with a grid hitting the ground in front of him. I wish I had more time, I would have realized I needed to move the grid off his feet a little and get some more light to his face. But, I am still somewhat pleased with this.
