Women’s NCAA Hoops – Key Play
Enonge Stovall (40) grabbed an offensive rebound off a missed free throw with 22 seconds left and the score UVA 60 Georgia 58. She was also fouled on the play by Porsha Phillips (21) and made both of her free throw attempts to seal the game (final score 62-60) for the Cavaliers. This was one of the more exciting hoops games at JPJ in a while. Virginia was down by as much as 5 in the second half and rallied to retake the lead in the final minutes. This was the second SEC team that UVA has defeated this year (they beat Tennessee on the road earlier). Shooting wise, it was a good start to the New Year.
The only problem with tonight’s game was related to my Multimax that is triggered (on a delay) for my remote cameras. The other Multimax on my system (which my hand held camera uses to fire the strobes) was doing fine, no problems… nothing but crickets on the remote MM. Headed up to the catwalk and discovered a new error message on the MM saying something to the effect “Auto Shutdown Initiated. Power cycle to turn on.” It’s fascinating to me that if the MM powered down on it’s own, that it was nice enough to stay awake to display this message. Why couldn’t it just stay awake and receive transmissions like it’s supposed to? Thus, combined with all the other troubles experienced with this part of my system earlier in the year, that it definitely is related to the power source. So, I just put in batteries and it worked perfectly the rest of the game… it’s going to really suck to have to haul up to the catwalk before and after every game to take care of batteries and powering off the radio, but looks like that’s the current solution until I can get another power supply.
This was the only remote shot that really worked out tonight – I’m still struggling to find a decent angle to position my backboard remotes for the women’s games. Generally a more vertical angle (i.e. straight down) seems to work better, whereas for the men, roughly 45 degrees seems to work. Different camera positions (high, low, wide, etc) with respect to the glass also change things. As ACC season is starting up soon, I’m getting close to locking down exactly the way I want it. The men play #22 Xavier (who broke my 70-200mm lens hood with an errant shot in their shoot around this afternoon) tomorrow… argh.
Someone’s Number 1
Today was a doubleheader of women’s hoops — the first round of the Marriott Cavalier Classic at UVA. I had to get there 3 hours before the first game to set up my remotes, which was pretty much a worthless endeavor since I was having trouble with my lights / remotes again. I suspect the PocketWizard Multimax that’s used to sequence my remote cameras is out of whack and/or needing to run off of batteries instead of wall power. Or perhaps it needs to be swapped out with a different PW — I’ll find out tomorrow during the two games I’m shooting then. I hope to have this year’s gremlins out of the system before Xavier comes to town on the 3rd…
More photos from LA Tech vs UMBC
Images from #15 Virginia vs Rider
UVA’s Keith Payne auditioning for Superman
This is one of my favorite football photos of all time. It’s from the 2007 season. Virginia running back Keith Payne – a large dude – decided to see how far and how high he could fly with the football. It was an amazing play — only dampened slightly by the fact that he landed just short of the end zone. It didn’t matter, as UVA went on to score a TD and squeaked out a win over Connecticut 17-16. I created this image laying down on my stomach in the back of the end zone. It was shot with my Canon Mark IIN, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras
Mike Scott’s one handed rebound
Wow. The Hoos’ finally dispatched of an opponent the way many fans expect them to do with every team they play. Virginia, led by Mike Scott’s game high 17 points and 15 boards (a one-handed version is pictured above), dispatched of the Hampton University Pirates 74-48 at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA on December 23, 2008. For me, this was a particularly fun game, given the proximity to the Christmas holiday — the arena was largely empty, the usual radio interference problems with my remotes was non-existent, and everyone seemed to be in a good mood.
More images from this game…
Happy Holidays to all!
