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Tim Gunn, who you may know from Project Runway, came to my campus the other day.
As a note, I''m having some issues with my webhost so this site may or may not come down sometime soon. (Temporarily.)

Here's a teaser from the set. The rest will come in time, as I'm busy this week.

AnimeNEXT 2008 Convention Photography
... pretty much the only non-shoot photo I have.
Photog in photo is Ollie @ Orobouros.Net

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Lots of photos in this set, but many more Circles 9 shots to come.
Set includes Bonnie & Clyde photos, and a few extras from mini bboys and 4vs4.
For a list of bboys and bgirls who may be in this set, please check here.

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Figures, statues, people, etc. Including commentary.
There are a number of other photos of people, etc but they include friends so I'll refrain from posting them.

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Cherry Blossom Festival photos and shots of University of Maryland at night. Not too many photos in this post.
Apologies for lack of posts. I've been busy and haven't had access to the computer I usually work on photos with. My laptop cannot efficiently handle large photo batches.

I'm really busy and unable to really process any photos, so I threw two of the Circles 9 photos through photoshop real quick to post up some teasers. (No processing other than resize and watermark.)

I realize I haven't posted anything lately. I have a set 98% done but I've been busy with things. I'll try to have that up tomorrow. Just want to write up about shooting breakdance competitions and whatnot.

I just got back from Circles 9 an hour or so ago. It's basically (as far as I know) the largest competition in the Maryland-Virginia region... although there are a number of people who come from Boston and New York as well. Lots and lots of talent. As a note though, shooting bboys is very, very tough in case anyone reading plans on shooting a competition.

The event was situated in the gym, so there was poor lighting. I ended up shooting with my 50mm f/1.4 on shutter priority between 1/640 to 1/1000, so I ended up being either f/1.4 and f/1.6. ISO was 1600. I also didn't use flash since... I don't have an external flash and I was unable to borrow one. Would be a little rough to do that anyway since I was shooting burst. Using the 50 prime was a little rough because my crop body essentially makes my lens 80mm (XT's have a 1.6 crop factor)... so I had to be as far as possible on the outer rim of the circle but on the inner most part so I wouldn't have anyone's heads in my shots. My focus mode was set to AI Servo ("Continuous Servo AF" in Nikons) so I could follow movement easily, since some people paced or moved around a lot. There are two problems with this. If someones doing a freeze, you can't focus lock and re-frame since it will refocus on wherever you move the camera. Also, it is very easy to miss and end up focusing on the background. Which is very, very irritating because I've missed a number of otherwise good shots because of that.

Essentially, it's like sports photography except tougher because you don't know what will happen next. Also, that moves change orientation a lot means you'll probably want to be actively rotating your camera as you shoot or else a lot of the body gets cut out. I would suggest spending some time watching clear videos of battles since sometimes you can guess what they'll do next so you can reorient the camera.

In any case, I shot 900+ photos at Circles 9. I will process them as soon as I can and post some photos in a few different posts, but I think I'll end up creating a flash gallery.

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Rugby game during the Cherry Blossom Festival.  Potomac Athletic vs Doylestown PA.
This was pretty much my first time shooting a sport. Unfortunately, I completely lack any mid-range and telephoto zooms so I was shooting with my EF 50mm f/1.4 USM. Still came out with some decent shots :)

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Shot people and cherry blossoms.
More parts to come later. Next post resumes photoshoots.