I don’t care what people want to think or say about Dickie V; he is a cool guy. Working sporting events, I have interactions with him “backstage” when he is working the games for ESPN. People think that the friendly disposition he has on camera doesn’t carry over to “real …
For those interested, the audio from the press conference (in the photos from day 3) has been posted to the website for the local sports radio station, 850 The Buzz. Here is a link to the mp3. One thing that is cool is he talks about rushing the floor after …
No pictures today. May have some Thursday since Brack could have (another) photo-shoot this time with USA Baseball. Also on Friday is the home-opener which I will also cover. This post is more about the ground rules of this project. Before I started the Andrew Brackman project I wanted to …
For grins, I thought I would start keeping track of how many hours I spend working on this project; both taking photos and all the editing and post-production work it will take. Why keep track? Maybe to quantify just how masochistic I am I guess. When I started the project …
Today is Super Bowl Sunday and I spent most of my day today up until the game with the baseball team. They started around 9:30am but I still worn out from the basketball game the night before did not arrive until 11:30. I arrived again when they were stretching so …
The team began today with around 9:30am with a warm-up, stretching and finally a scrimmage that started around noon. The weather wasn’t too cold except when you were in the shade or if the wind blew. If one happened, you could expect your face to turn blue. If both happened, …
Today the Technician, NC State’s student newspaper, did a photo shoot with Andrew under the lights of Doak field starting around 6:15pm. They used some strobes to light him while using the press box and stadium lights as a back drop. I can’t wait to see the results. I used …
Photographers know that an SLR camera lens is very expensive. Although the digital camera has changed the paradigm somewhat, one can still say that the lens is more expensive than the camera itself. Canon has posted an informative video on how a Canon 500mm f/4.0 IS lens is constructed from …
Bummer. Potential inclement weather has pushed off the Brackman photo shoot for today until Friday.
A couple months ago I was reading my latest copy of Inside Lacrosse. I’m probably the only person in America who subscribes to IL and doesn’t play lacrosse; call me contrarian. One article in the November 2006 issue caught my eye. It was a story about the Duke Lacrosse team. …