{"id":136,"date":"2007-03-08T19:19:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T00:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/08\/day-8-of-andrew-brackman-project\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T23:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T03:23:24","slug":"day-8-of-andrew-brackman-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/08\/day-8-of-andrew-brackman-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8 of Andrew Brackman Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

While posted on March 8th<\/sup>, these photos are actually from March 7th<\/sup>. <\/span>Last night I had to play catch-up on editing and sending photos off to clients. <\/span>So I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get time to write in this journal, blog or whatever it should be called.<\/p>\n

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After a two-week hiatus on the project, I returned back to Doak Field to get back to work on the project. <\/span>The Pack was playing North Carolina A&T in a mid-week stand. <\/span>I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t arrive until about the 4th<\/sup> inning and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even bother bringing my longer focal length lenses (that is, a lens that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dczooms in far\u00e2\u20ac\u2122) to photograph the game; instead opting for wider lenses instead.<\/p>\n

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I brought with me a brand new lens I bought a week ago \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Canon 50mm 1.2L<\/a>. <\/span>I have been eyeing this lens for some time and thought this project would provide an excuse to finally buy it. <\/span>It was about $1,500 but has proved its worth so far. <\/span>At f\/1.2 it really \u00e2\u20ac\u0153opens up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and lets me shoot in darker situations. <\/span>Plus, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sharp and with its circular aperture has excellent background blur. All the pictures taken below were taken with the new lens.<\/p>\n

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I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take that many photos today and really did not get anything too striking. <\/span>I was pretty disappointed in the take. <\/span>Part of that is because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m starting to run dry on ideas of good photos to take when we are always in the same environment: club house, weight room, etc. <\/span>I am going to have to figure out some new locations to shoot to mix it up; or rather, go with him to other places which can be tough because I don’t want to get in his way. <\/span>But, even when shooting in the same environment, sometimes fun things do happen. <\/span>For example, last pic below has Brack and Andrew Taylor trying to pull in Joey Cutler into the pool at Weisiger-Brown. <\/span>Unfortunately this happened so fast and the lens I had on the camera at the time was my new 50mm when what I needed was a wider lens. <\/span>So it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little too cropped.<\/p>\n

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