Bank of the West Classic 2010

Just like every time you shoot and event, you need to do a check on all your gear. Today I am gearing up to go to Palo Alto to visit Stanford and cover the Bank of the West Classic.

The gear line up includes the following Canon equipment: 5D MKII, 1D MKII and MKIII bodies, 70-200mm 2.8L, 16-35mm 2.8L, 400mm 2.8L series lenses, chargers, batteries, Think Tank International bag, a speed belt also by Think Tank, a MacBook Pro and a mono-pod.

Last year Marion Bartoli of France took the win.

Day 1:

29 July 2010: Stanford Calif. Victoria AZARENKA (BLR) returns a serve against Melanie OUDIN (USA) on Thursday during the Bank of the West Classic women's tennis tournament at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Konstandinos Goumenidis / Southcreek Global

 This will be the 4th year I covered this tennis match. The first time I covered this event I had a little

PALY vs St. Francis High School girls Tennis

Here are a few from the Tennis match I shot... more of the same school soon to come.





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Burlingame Girls Tennis

I was sent out to get a few shots of the varsity tennis games in Burlingame just before going on vacation. It is very difficult to shoot local high school sports period after shooting pro stuff! Getting emotion out of some sports at a high school level is like pulling teeth! any way Enjoy the images!

Photos from the past few days

So I have not put up photos for a few days but been busy with other things. I thought this time I would update the page with a few sports photos I shot over the past few days. Not much to say but enjoy the photos!

Tennis match

Tennis season along with a lot of other high school sports are going on. I think I am starting to get a hold of Tennis but what makes it so hard is it seems to always be in the middle of the day so you get those GREAT (sarcastic) shadows across the face from visors. In this shot it was not that bad so I was able to get away shooting where the sun was hitting across her body. A lot of times if you have harsh shadows is a good idea to overexpose and shoot with the sun behind your subject to be able to get even lighting across the person.

Tennis

Now for assignment no. 3. It's about 3:30 p.m. and I need to finish up editing and hit up one more place so I can get home before 6:50 p.m. I took about 15min to shoot Tennis then ran to my car to be in East Palo Alto by 4:30.

I pull up to the YMCA in EPA with a bit of time to spare. I grab my lap top and start editing. I got all the photos downloaded and chosen so all I had to do is put in the captions and the photos on the wire.