The Color Guard

[rexbobcat]

I just got hired onto my university's newspaper as a photographer (yay =D ), but unfortunately there's just not a whole lot going on around the campus right now so we basically roam around and get semi-stock photos that can be used in upcoming issues if they're at least a little relevant to the articles.

And since the first football game is this Saturday I just photographed the color guard outside rehearsing. Please excuse the megasharpness on some of them. Flickr did that.

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[Rick58]

you sold me on #2

 

[amolitor]

Great stuff.

#1 did you clip the top of the flag staff? It doesn't bother me.. much. Just slightly.

#2 is indeed superb, but I think you might have pushed the tones around to make his face look a little weird. If that's processing, maybe back off a notch or two.

#3 is almost as strong (He's a great subject, but you did great things with him).

I want the shirt from the last two, but then, I love dumb nerd jokes. They're good but not great photos.

I like the concept of the "color guard" shot in B&W.

 

[rexbobcat]

Great stuff.

#1 did you clip the top of the flag staff? It doesn't bother me.. much. Just slightly.

#2 is indeed superb, but I think you might have pushed the tones around to make his face look a little weird. If that's processing, maybe back off a notch or two.

#3 is almost as strong (He's a great subject, but you did great things with him).

I want the shirt from the last two, but then, I love dumb nerd jokes. They're good but not great photos.

I like the concept of the "color guard" shot in B&W.

I didn't mean too. I cropped it like that because there were too distracting strangers in the frame to the right and when I cropped it with the top it looked awkwardly vertical if that makes sense. It would like halfway between a vertical photograph and a square photograph. I just didn't like it. I'll go back and see if there is some other to crop to get the top of the flag that looks good. lol.

I was also trying a new b&w processing style that I think in some situations works pretty well.

And I just got the shirt thing XD

i 8...sigma(?) pi. It probably means "some" lol. I think it would have been better if they had used θ.

 

[amolitor]

Yep. The greek capital letter sigma is mathese for 'summation' as in 'add up all these things'. So, "i 8 sum pi". It's great because the translation is so banal.

 

[tirediron]

"Colour Guard" in black & white... I see what you've done there!

Okay, seriously, someone wanna a'splain this to the Canuck? I understand what a Colour Guard is, but I don't understand what/why it appears to be being conducted by civillians in gym clothes.

 

[rexbobcat]

It was rehearsal. Unfortunately they don't get all uniformed up until the event. In this case the football game