GSB Winter Sports
We had a busy week photographing some of the Winter Sports at Gill St Bernard’s School. Basketball was completed December 2009 and we should have indoor track done next week. The photo of the fencers lunging with their blades is my personal favorite. The swimming and fencing group photo was taken with the use of two Dynalite Uni400s: direct in the case of swimming and bounced of a white ceiling for the group shot of the fencers lunging.
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NJSIAA Swimming: Union at Kent Place
January 12, 2009: Union at Kent Place Swimming held at Fairleigh Dickinson’s Recreational Center Pool in Florham Park, NJ
Madison @ Kent Place Swimming
Madison, NJ, USA; 9 February 2009 Monday: Madison @ Kent Place Swimming. This was the last dual meet for both teams and represents an undefeated season for Kent Place after beating Madison 118 to 57. Congratulations to the Kent Place team and Coach Andi Sawin.
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Gill St. Bernards Swim Team
Basking Ridge, NJ: Pictures of the Gill St. Bernard’s Knights in action at the Somerset Hills YMCA. Photos by Alex Cena
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Oak Knoll @ Kent Place Swimming
Madison, NJ, USA; 16 December 2008 Tuesday: Kent Place defeated Oak Knoll 111-59 in a varsity girls swim meet held at Fairleigh Dickinson’s Athletic Center.
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200 MR: Kent Place (Jackie O’Neill, Jenna Immormino, Cassidy Bommer, Katie Cummins) 2:05.89.
200 Free: Louise DeMartin, Kent Place, 2:12.72.
200 IM: Katie Cummins, Kent Place, 2:27.59.
50 Free: T. Hartley, Oak Knoll, 0:26.28.
100 Fly: Amanda Grywalski, Kent Place, 1:04.33.
100 Free: T. Hartley, Oak Knoll, 0:58.36.
500 Free: Jenna Immormino, Kent Place, 6:27.13.
200 FR: Kent Place (Jackie O’Neill, Olivia Wolff, Louise DeMartin, Katie Cummins) 1:54.88.
100 Back: Ali Guida, Kent Place, 1:08.97.
100 Breast: Vanessa Osman, Kent Place, 1:20.84.
400 FR: Kent Place (Allison Goldberg, Jackie O’Neill, Caroline Kingsbery, Olivia Wolff) 4:29.70.
Metuchen @ Kent Place Swimming
Madison, NJ – The Kent Place Dragons defeated Metuchen 103 to 66 in a girls high school swim meet held at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Athletic Center in Madison, NJ on January 23, 2008.
Kent Place Wins its 1st MVC Swimming Title
Basking Ridge, NJ – Congratulations to The Kent Place School Dragons, who won its first Mountain Valley Conference title in swimming on January 20, 2008 in a meet held at the Somerset Hills YMCA. The Dragons earned 305 points compared to 254 and 167.5 for New Providence and Governor Livingston who came in second and third place, respectively.
Shooting Sports Indoors
As the indoor sports season approaches, I thought I would opine on how to simulate arena lighting inside typically dark high school venues. Many people take their fancy DSLR cameras to basketball and ice hockey games thinking they will get great images of their favorite athlete, but all they get are blurry images full of digital noise similar to grain we used to get when we were shooting mostly film. You can spend a lot of money on the fastest lenses and the fanciest camera bodies, but your images still will not come close to rivalling those shot with some artifical light. Save your money. You do not need that 200/2.0 lens. What you need are some strobes.
My suggestions are applicable to basketball, wrestling, track, ice hockey, swimming and other indoor events in dark locations. I will talk about my strategy using Dynalite strobes and packs, but they are certainly applicable if you plan to use monolights from White Lightning, Dynalite, Speedotron, Elinchrom, Profoto and others as well as camera flash units with sync such as the QFlash, SB-800 or 580-EXII. Done right, you can capture images like those below.
If you want to know how it’s done, continue to the rest of the article:
