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.