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.

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.