Blue White 09

Apr 26 2009

This weekend was Penn State’s annual spring football game, the Blue White game. I used it as a testing event for some remote cameras that I’m going to do in the future for real football games.

I’ve been working to get some cameras on the top of the Bryce Jordan Center. I went up a couple of times last week to figure out the logistics and where I would place the cameras. I was going to do two different focal lengths at different parts of the building. At the last minute, I decided it would be cool to do two cameras with the same focal length pointing in opposite directions to later stitch together and make a panoramic image of people tailgating. I borrowed my friend’s D300 with a 10mm lens to use as the other camera to complement my 5D with the 17mm lens. Since the D300 isn’t full frame, it comes out to be 15mm, roughly equivalent to the 5D’s 17.

I went up a couple hours before the game to set the cameras up. More about that in another post.

Here are some good ones from the game.

(Canon 5D Mark II & NIKON D300 stitched together) – click on the image to see a higher res version.

(Canon 1D Mark II, 300mm, 1/400, f/9, ISO 200)

(Canon 1D Mark II, 300mm, 1/2000, f/4, ISO 200)

(Canon 1D Mark II, 300mm, 1/1250, f/4, ISO 200)

This photographer got freaked out when a receiver started running his way. Good thing he moved, too, cause the receiver ran right over all of his equipment. Look at the sequence below.

(Canon 1D Mark II, 300mm, 1/1250, f/4, ISO 200)

(Canon 1D Mark II, 300mm, 1/1250, f/4, ISO 200)

(Canon 1D Mark II, 300mm, 1/2500, f/4, ISO 200)

(Canon 1D Mark II, 300mm, 1/2000, f/4, ISO 200)

Some of the friends who I traveled to Florida with were up visiting and attended the game in the President’s Box. Dennis called me during the game because he saw me on the field. I blindly snapped a picture up in their direction because it was hard to see through the glare on the window. I came back and while looking through my photos, saw them in the upper left of this one!

(Canon 1D Mark II, 300mm, 1/1250, f/4, ISO 200)

Zoomed in, you can see Dennis on the phone with me and Ginny to his right.

(Canon 1D Mark II, 300mm, 1/1250, f/4, ISO 200)