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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Posted by Drew Perine @ 04:33:10 pm
 I made this unpublished photo of Rogers coach Jaclyn Ramsey, right, and Olivia Tama laughing at each other's attempt to keep dry during intermittent heavy rain at the SPSL 4A Fastpitch Fastpitch Tournament final Saturday in Kent. Coach is wearing the cover of a plastic bucket on her head. The Rams defeated Emerald Ridge and luckily the weather never became a factor other than we all got wet.
Categories: Drew Perine
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Posted by Peter Haley @ 04:49:13 pm
 I wanted the impression of speed. Using the blur-pan technique is a good way convey that. (Blur-pans are done using a slow shutter speed and moving the camera so that the main subject doesn't move in the viewfinder.) Usually blur-pans are done with a telephoto from a position to the side of the motion. In this case I also wanted to make the viewer feel like he/she is in the action, so I put the camera just behind the shoulder of the driver using a tripod and gaffers tape (also, a 14mm lens and a half second shutter speed). As you can see from how the specular highlights danced around his helmet, there was WAY too much vibration. Maybe having the drivers roll along at 1/10th of the normal speed would've worked. Or I could've rented a gyroscopic stabilizer from a photo supply house in LA for about $400. (NOT!) Such pictures CAN be done. Below is one from last summer. 
Categories: Peter Haley
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Posted by Peter Haley @ 11:59:31 pm
 This girl is fascinated by the goofy costume worn by "Amy C." at the spring celebration called Quatro de Mayo held at Alpental ski area. I just call her a little girl because her parents were reluctant to have her name used, and Amy had a similar notion when she declined her full last name. I'm not surprised of course-- ribald humor such as this costume is commonly enjoyed but folks are squeamish about being publicly associated with it. The same applies to most American newspapers. I don't think most editors would want this picture in the paper-- why risk offending a couple of readers for a photo that isn't important and is only mildly amusing? We can be a little looser on the web because we have a different audience and readers' expectations are different. I didn't think the costume warranted a photo by itself, but the girl's rapt attention did. Is the girl's sense of female sexuality being developed? Or just her notion of the types of costumes people can wear? Notice that with her hands she seems to be imitating the "big girl".
Categories: Peter Haley
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Posted by Peter Haley @ 04:51:15 pm
 I've been doing news photography for so long now, I can hardly remember when I shot a picture that appeals purely for the aesthetics. This one is really REALLY cliche, but it's still lovely. It's just not original nor very artistic. It was this kind of photography-- or even more abstract-- that sucked me in back in the mid-1970's. On this occasion I was looking for a cover photo for our GO! section when I chanced upon this rusty old "donkey engine" at Camp 6 in Pt. Defiance Park. Another shot made a better one for our cover story on "mini museums", but this one kept tugging at my eye.
Categories: Peter Haley
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Posted by Peter Haley @ 11:46:20 am
 Jake Yount of University of San Diego heads into a blustery sprinkle on the 16th hole during the third round of the West Coast Conference college golf tournament at Chambers Bay. He ended up in a tie for first place with a 2-over score of 218.
Categories: Peter Haley
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Posted by Joe Barrentine @ 11:31:07 am
Crews from the Lady Washington and the Hawaiian Chieftain learn how to make sails for tall ships.
Categories: Joe Barrentine
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Posted by Peter Haley @ 01:01:59 pm
 Governor Chris Gregoire steps up onto the stage at Landmark Convention Center in Tacoma for the second rally of her campaign for reelection. "So what's with the fist?" was my reaction, too, when I saw this photo. The answer is that it really isn't a fist-- it's just what many people unconsciously do with their OTHER hand when reaching out to pull. Congressman Norm Dicks is reaching out with his right hand to help Governor Gregoire mount the stage and I'm sure nobody who saw this would've noticed the unremarkable fact that his left hand was balled and not near her at the time. Nobody, that is, except my camera. I was shooting rapidly, backing down the aisle and up the stairs ahead of the governor, holding my camera out "hail Mary" style. When one can't look through the viewfinder one can't be very sure of what ends up in the photos, especially when everything is moving fast. So the prominent "fist" has nothing to do with what actually happened with the people in the picture and everything to do with where the camera was at that instant. It was close to Dick's left hand in a spot that coincidentally juxtaposed hand and face. I certainly never saw the "fist" until I looked through my take hours later. "So why publish such a misleading picture," you ask? Because it's an otherwise good photo, and it's quirky, something that I like to add to my photos. We'd rarely put such a photo in a position of prominence-- the one in the paper was good, albeit more conventional. We might have included this photo in the paper if it were one of, say, four photos from the campaign. And I did so in the photo gallery ( http://www.thenewstribune.com/942/story/329260.html ). But its most perfect home is here in our photo blog.
Categories: Peter Haley
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Posted by Peter Haley @ 06:09:41 pm
 Kevin Ma of Mead High School in Spokane recites during the final round of Poetry Out Loud held at UPS. In the drumming post below I mentioned that I like to shoot from the side to show both performer and audience. A month ago I arrived at the beginning of a poetry recitation competition at UPS and saw that the only way to show performers with anything but a blank background would be to shoot from behind. So I bolted for my car and retrieved a pair of radio remote transceivers and in the moments between recitations placed a camera on the stage floor facing toward the audience. With a 14mm super-wide angle lens deciding exactly where to point the camera wasn't an issue. But how to get the exposure? I wouldn't have time to shoot a frame, look at the little screen, then improve the settings. So I turned on the "auto bracketing" function and set the auto exposure to "A", or "aperture preferred". The camera would shoot three different exposures by varying the shutter speed. It was the first time I've ever used auto bracketing. Then I shot the performers with a telephoto from the audience while simultaneously shooting from behind with the remote camera. As you can see, shooting from behind worked. But with the extreme lighting and lens flare, the photo required lots of work in PhotoShop. And what about seeing the performer? Seeing a person from the back isn't quite satisfying, so we ran a second shot of the winner of the competition.
Categories: Dean Koepfler
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Posted by Peter Haley @ 12:58:53 pm
 Kayley Cole of Olympia (left) and Gayle Denman of Auburn stay out of the drizzle as the newly retrofitted boat Point Ruston arrives in Thea Foss Waterway, moved from its previous dock in Ruston at the former smelter site. It will be used as a "crew's lounge" for visiting sailors involved in Tall Ships Tacoma. It is the former Pierce County ferry "Steilacoom" and served the Anderson Island route. My assignment was to show that the former ferry was refurbished and moved downtown. Showing that people were on hand to see its arrival, and showing the weather as well, is a bonus. The challenge is to tell as much as one can in a photo without making it too cluttered or having the main subject too small to see it well. Wide angle lenses are a valuable tool for that. Perhaps your next point-n-shoot should have a zoom that can go as wide as 28mm equivalent, eh?
Categories: Peter Haley
Posted by Peter Haley @ 12:51:08 pm
 Eleventh-grader Joshua Ghozeil plays and chants as part of a (Japanese) Taiko Drumming group in Stadium High School's "Multicultural Assembly" Friday, March 21, 2008. Students, several from foreign lands, performed music, dance and showed fashions,a slideshow and a video. When shooting a speech or performance, I like to show the whole event rather than just the person(s) on stage. So rather than shoot from the viewpoint of the audience, I usually move to the side or rear so that I can get audience in the background. Since performers don't look back very often, it limits the number of moments I can catch. I'll have fewer frames to choose from, but it's usually worth it so show a more complete version of the event.
Categories: Peter Haley
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Posted by Jeremy Harrison @ 03:46:27 pm
 Melanie Anderson, watches as her husband, U.S. Army Sgt. Phillip Anderson's casket is carried by members of the Washington State Honor Team, at Tahoma National Cemetery, in Kent, Wash., Thursday afternoon, 20, 2008. Sgt. Anderson, a resident of Graham was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hood, Texas and died in Balad Ruz, Iraq, March 10, 2008. Janet Jensen/The News Tribune
Categories: Janet Jensen
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Posted by Peter Haley @ 06:01:43 pm
 In honor of St. Patrick's Day, a pool player at The Swiss wore a green hat. But it was the beautiful lighting that forced the camera to my eye. In the back rooms at The Swiss there are large window up high, so when shooting toward the windows with a telephoto, the backlighting puts a thin bright rim on the people. It also makes for lots of flare. It's one of the rare times when I wish I had a telephoto that wasn't also a zoom lens because with fewer lens elements, it would have a little less flare. Having lots of flare means more work in PhotoShop to clean it up and build back the contrast that was robbed by that type of flare. An assistant with a card to shade my lens would also help. That's one of the differences between a big commercial "shoot" and a roving news photographer.
Categories: Peter Haley
Posted by Peter Haley @ 05:53:26 pm
 Dancers from Evolution Irish Dance Troupe bow to their audience at Villas at Union Park, a senior home in Tacoma. The troupe performed jigs and reels, then packed up their dance flooring and music box and headed for their next gig on a busy St. Patrick's Day.
Categories: Peter Haley
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Posted by Joe Barrentine @ 11:44:19 pm
Staff photographer Dean Koepfler works with parents, children and designers to make a fun photo to illustrate a story on the differences between disposable and cloth diapers.
Categories: Dean Koepfler
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Posted by Peter Haley @ 04:48:14 pm
 Audience members react excitedly as the "jammer" for the Dallas Deception is sent off the track by the "pivot" of Tacoma's Puget Sound Outcast in an early round of "Throwdown in the Sound", a mens roller derby tournament held in Tacoma Saturday, March 8, 2008. The biggest difficulty when shooting an event like this is catching sharp action photos with the very poor lighting that such venues usually have. One could shoot with a flash, but that produces ugly, unnatural lighting, and it doesn't usually allow one to shoot many frames rapidly. To shoot action indoors without flash, the first requirement is to have a large camera, such as a digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera. Small point-and-shoot cameras don't have the capability of shooting in very low light-- their little sensors actually don't capture as many photons as sensors in larger cameras. But the lighting in the Tacoma Soccer Center is so dim that eventhough I was shooting at an ISO of 3200, I still had to use some flash in order to have adequate exposure and freeze the action. I used a shutter speed of 1/180th of a second - which isn't high enough to freeze the action reliably - and the widest apeture that my telephoto lens would allow: f/2.8. To see more photos from the Throwdown in the Sound, visit the gallery.
Categories: Peter Haley
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Posted by Joe Barrentine @ 10:56:20 am
Lynden's Blair Bomber guard, tries to block Foster's Refugio Soto-Lopez during 2nd period action of the 9 a.m. game of the WIAA State 2A boys basketball tournament in the Tacoma Dome this morning. 
Categories: Russ Carmack
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Posted by Joe Barrentine @ 04:38:36 pm
Foss guard LuQuam Thompson looks for a pass over the head of Edmonds-Woodway guard James Conti in the first quarter at the Tacoma Dome, Friday, Feb. 29. Chris Hunt for the Tribune. 
Categories: Dean Koepfler
Posted by Joe Barrentine @ 04:16:17 pm
Some of the crew PLU works on some multimedia and still photos deep inside the Tacoma Dome Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. They are Chris Hunt, left, Bryanna Plog, Sean Roach. Day 3 and going strong! 
Categories: Joe Barrentine
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Posted by Joe Barrentine @ 10:30:12 am
 Mount Tahoma's Shauneice Samms drives in to Lake Stevens' Brittany Tri in the first few minutes of the first game of the day in the state 4A basketball tournament at the Tacoma Dome, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008.
Categories: Jeremy Harrison
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