Multimedia: Oh, The Weather Outside...

We had a rather nasty snowstorm blow through Purdue last week, right as final exams began. The snowfall wasn't especially heavy, but the 40+mph wind gusts made the conditions rather extreme. I grabbed my camera and wandered around campus and shot some footage and stills, and then cut together this short video. Hopefully you enjoy it. Happy Holidays!

If you want to watch it full screen or in HD, click the link below - it has better quality than the embedded video.

http://www.vimeo.com/18129863

For non-full screen & standard def viewing:

Winter Wonderland from Kevin Daly on Vimeo.

NCAA BBall: Purdue vs. Alcorn State

Here are some of my favorite images from shooting Purdue's game against Alcorn State on November 17th.  It was a great game to shoot - Purdue ran a very aggressive offense and won with a huge margin 103-48.

And two more from my backboard remote:

Flashback: Purdue vs. Minnesota

Finally caught up on some editing! Here are some of my favorite images from Purdue's homecoming football game against Minnesota in October. It was a gorgeous afternoon, and the Boilermakers won 28-17.

Goodbye Fall, Hello Winter

The last few weeks of warmth have passed...winter is here.

It's going to be an interesting couple of months. We're finishing up preproduction for a film I'm directing that will commence shooting in January. I'm looking forward to working with Eric Hulen, who we've casted for the leading role. Below are a few pictures from his screen test, which we shot a few weeks back. More details about the film will come later as we move into production.

On a separate note, there are no classes this week and I'm heading home for Thanksgiving break, so I'll finally have time to catch up on editing that's been piling up over the last few weeks...look for several updates in the next week or so!

Basketball Season Has Arrived!

The Purdue basketball season kicked off Tuesday night with the first pre-season game against the University of Indianapolis. Purdue has some very talented additions to the team, and it's going to be an interesting season as the team works to overcome their recently acquired underdog status. Some of my images from the game:

NCAA Football: Purdue vs. Illinois

Here are some of my images from Purdue's game against Illinois on Saturday. The second image pretty much sums everything up. 

Tech Notes:
I learned an important lesson - I need to pay more attention to specific color channel highlights, especially when shooting JPEGs. When the game started, I had my picture controls set to +1 saturation. Big mistake. The increased saturation coupled with bright orange Illinois jerseys being lit by direct sunlight when I shot from the south end zone resulted in completely blown oranges. The Illinois players' jerseys were rendered as textureless orange blobs. I didn't realize the severity of the issue until halftime when I saw the images on a laptop, so for the rest of the game, I dialed down the saturation in-camera, which made the issue easier to fix in post with highlight recovery and a further reduction in red channel saturation.

1 Day in 1 Minute

Yesterday I travelled to Urbana-Champagne to cover Purdue's football game against Illinois. Illinois waxed Purdue, but on the bright side, I made some good pictures (to come later), as well as this short video, which sums up my day in about a minute:

If you want to watch it full screen, click the link below, it has higher quality than the embedded video.

http://www.vimeo.com/16368186


10.30.10 from Kevin Daly on Vimeo.

Pumpkins & Knives

Kicked off Halloween weekend by carving pumpkins. I've been told it isn't difficult to guess which pumpkin was mine...

Tech Notes:

For these images, I decided to play around with the Nikon 35mm f/1.8.  I was pleasantly surprised: not only did the DX lens completely cover the sensor on my full frame body, the vignetting wasn't all that severe.  Considering the new 35 f/1.4 that is designed for full frame costs nine times as much, I'm certainly not complaining.