5D Sports

The challenge of shooting sports is made all the more difficult when you're doing it on a 5D Mark II, a camera obviously designed for something else.

It can be frustrating when you're tracking a player driving to the basket or running the field and your auto focus can't keep up and photographers around you are snapping off twice the photos in half the time.

But if you can time it right, or just get plain lucky, and get a frame without a ball or arms in the way of the player's face, the photos look great considering the very low light they were shot in.

Here's hoping the Mark III will have a faster frame rate, or there will soon be a more affordable full-frame Canon camera that can be used to shoot a variety of subjects including sports.

J.G.L.

hitRECord at Sundance so Britnee could get her Joseph Gordon-Levitt fix.

Heading back on Saturday to watch the grand jury prize drama winner.

Cedar Fort

We rarely get out as far west as Cedar Fort and Fairfield, but every time I do I'm hoping to discover something different and story worthy.

This morning, after shooting a portrait at a gas station in Cedar Fort, I pushed onto Fairfield on a dwindling tank of gas to see if anything was happening at Camp Floyd. But as usual, the streets were quiet and the museum empty except for two park rangers.

Then I realized that might be the story right there. The rangers who man that state park, which seems like one of the least visited and boring posts in all of Utah.

Every time I've passed by, except for their annual civil war re-enactment and occasional school field-trip visits, I've found the park employees sitting in a tiny office in the small museum on an empty street in Fairfield.

Might have to spend some time with them during the quiet months of winter to see what exactly they get up to and how they maintain their sanity.

Jordan the Intern

Introducing our new intern Jordan Stead! (formerly of ZUMA and eventually of LUCEO).

He's already been killing it on even the lamest of assignments and thankfully has a great sense of humor as he puts up with our shenanigans on the slow days, (see image above).

Take a look at some of his work on his blog HERE.

We pulled out the old smoke machine that was donated by our editor Amie to the photo department. In only a few minutes we managed to fill the whole studio and some of the warehouse with a thick haze.

Bad enough that I had to leave a note on the door reading "not a fire..." on the door.

I just hope there isn't a real fire tonight that is ignored because of my note, but hopefully they'll be smart enough to figure it out.

Tanning Salon

Close Up

A close up last week turned out to be harder to shoot than expected, being that my subject's work wasn't as glamorous as expected.

But despite the struggle and a rush to get the story finished in time after a late Friday interview, it was nice to hang out with devil dogs again.

Story HERE.

Not Welcome

Sad to see Deron get booed this evening with all the good years he gave us here in Utah.

While I couldn't have cared less about the departure of Okur, (who received loud cheers and applause tonight), I sure do miss D-Will on our side.

Don't know if he was really affected by the constant jeers every time he touched the ball, but he only went 3 of 15.

That's even worse than Tebow.