The Nerve Optic

Standing by for Homecoming October 3, 2009

Waiting to play for the homecoming crowd

We Won.

My high school had a horrible football squad from 1975 through 1979.

We lost every one of our homecoming games.  My son no longer faces that threat, as his high school clobbered their able opponents 41-14.  The band, all 220 of them, line up in the dark underneath the scoreboard and warm up.  The glow of the red LEDs from the board lend a strange glow to everything, as if lit by an internal light.

Shot at 1600 ISO, the colors become over-saturated and nearly posterized.  Some folks will tone down the colors in post processing, but I like the look, especially when the subject matter lends itself to detail shots like the one above.

Clicking on the photo should take you to a slide show of 20 or so images picked from the 550 I shot last night.

Shot with a K20D and a 50mm-300mm Pentax DA lens.