Showing posts with label basketball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label basketball. Show all posts

Monday, February 7, 2011

Day 50 - Under Ten - 30 Jan 2011

Under Ten

You wouldn't know it by looking, but something I am trying to do this time around is take more portraits. It is certainly one area where my photography skills are lacking, so this could be a good opportunity for improvement. The specific kind of portraits I'd like to get good at taking are Environmental Portraits. Wikipedia defines these as:

An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject's usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject's life and surroundings. By photographing a person in their natural surroundings, it is thought that you will be able to better illuminate their character, and therefore portray the essence of their personality, rather than merely a likeness of their physical features.

So anyway, at least you now know what I was trying to do with this shot. Hopefully you will see more of these in the next 315 days.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Day 29 - Miss You Much - 9 Jan 2011

Miss You Much

You don't have to watch a great deal of U10 (aka 2nd and 3rd grader) basketball to realize that relatively speaking, a shot that comes this close to the the hoop is a good shot. This particular effort was my sixth try photographing free throws, and the only shot that includes both the ball and the rim. Some days you take what you can get.