Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

Are You Ready For Some Football?

This past weekend my son had his first flag football game against the Sooners. Most of the game consisted of running plays, but we actually pull off a screen pass that went really well. It was fun watching them on the field. After a couple of plays, they seemed to catch on to what was going on. He almost had a touchdown, but his loco legs got a hold of him and brought him down.

Despite a few little meltdowns and a fire ant attack, he did good. But most importantly, he had fun.

Surprise!

This past weekend my wife and sister-in-law threw a surprise birthday party for my mother-in-law. It turned out really nice and I was able to get a lot of shots of the festivities. Like I mentioned in my DSN post, I don’t get to shoot a lot of events, so I enjoy it when I get the chance. This is what photography is all about. Capturing those special memories you want to keep forever.

Taking indoor, low light photos is always a challenge when you don’t have a good lens, so most of the pictures were doctored up a little. I didn’t break out my external flash, so I used the on-camera one which had to be toned down some in post processing. I also found auto focusing was an issue at times, but the Nikon did pretty good with picking out the right settings in Priority mode.

Dallas South News Opening Photos

I rarely get the chance to take photos at an actual event, so I thought I’d bring my camera. I should have shot in RAW because I always have to lighten my indoor shots (I need a better lens) and RAW gives you a lot more control when editing. I

Here’s the original post I did about the event at theotalks.net.

Obama Election Night

The night Obama was to be elected, I was invited to blog at an election watch party at Friendship West Baptist Church. The place was packed and Fred Hammond was going to perform later that night. Everyone was excited and cheering as the results came in and at around 10pm it happened. Fred was in the middle of his song and people were going crazy. Obama had won the election! Fred and everyone in the church started singing “This is the Day”. It was great.

Here are some pictures from that night. I didn’t have a flash at the time, so I had to post-process a lot of these to make them brighter.

Sang Patti!!!

Earlier this year, I got the opportunity to see Patti LaBelle in concert. My church’s male chours was invited to open for her in Garland and I had to play trumpet on a couple of songs (yes, I opened for Patti). I’d never seen her in concert and I can honestly say, I had a good time. She seemed to go off the cuff and got the audience involved.

What I liked was that she WANTED people to take pictures. She invited people on the floor to come down while she posed. We were on the left side of the stage in the first couple of rows, so I used my 50-200mm lens. It was dark and I didn’t have a flash at the time, but I managed to get some decent shots.