More Photos from Over the Weekend

Engineering Graduation @ Cal

I got a press pass to shoot the event for Blue & Gold, but I was also there to cheer on Yara (labmate). My knee was hurting, so I didn't make it to the reception. I shot with Canon 200mm f/2.8 L II, mostly at 2.8. My favorite is that of a professor dressed in pink. Tell me that's not gay (I'm all for it, it's just funny).

Pac 10 Track and Field Meet

I managed to get a sunburn this Saturday while shooting this track and field meet for the Blue&Gold yearbook. Oh well... Pretty much everything is shot with the 200mm f/2.8 prime. The last one is @ 10mm though. Everyone there was shooting with 400mm f/2.8, but I only needed to get a few good images, so no big deal.

Shooting Cal Rowing Practice.

The Cal women's crew coach was very nice and offered to take me on the water to shoot one of their early morning practices. Lighting was a bit harsh in some places, but the weather was nothing short of amazing. The National Championships are coming up, so wish them good luck.

I shot everything with a Canon 200mm f/2.8 prime (@ f/2.8 or f/4), and a Sigma 10-20mm (@ f/8). I used manual exposure and underexposed quite a bit at first, being afraid to blow the highlights. More images are posted on my Picasa albums online http://picasaweb.google.com/gheghe/CrewPracticeEdited# .

Panorama from the roof of the house

The roof of our house has a reasonably good view to the Bay and the Campanile. Here's today's procrastination panorama. 200mm f/8.

Campus Flowers

By the music building in the afternoon.

Sigma 400 f/5.6

This lens can produce good images if you know what you're doing and are careful to focus in advance. This is am image from a Cal-Stanford track meet.

Panoramas from Carlos's House

We had a party at our prof's place and took these there. Shot @ 85mm, stitched panorama.

Softball vs Arizona (State?)

Another attempt at shooting a sport game over the weekend. The weather was too nice to stay home. I tried using my old and crappy Sigma 400mm f/5.6 but almost nothing is in focus... I shot the rest with 100mm and a few at 10mm (the wide angle one is my favorite).