Friday night it was the home game for LBHS. Cavaliers, dressed in red, playing the Hidden Valley Titans. Whoo!LBHS is our alma mater. Go team!
The quarterback, handing off the ball, is my nephew. Go Number 8!
Unfortunately, the team was not playing so well, and lost.
I was in the marching band in high school. I was rather unimpressed with the school effort Friday night. Pretty sloppy, unfortunately, and having done it for four years myself I feel qualified to at least make that comment.
It was a very warm evening; I wish it could be that nice for all football games, although I understand that cooler weather brings forth hot chocolate and apple cider.
There were a gazillion youngsters (about age 10) roaming around the field, racing up and down the stands. There was a recognition of all the Recreation Teams, which is why all these young people were there.
As they were introduced at half-time, I watched as two burly men with LBHS on their hats shook hands with the (male) coaches of the boys little league teams and turned around and took drinks from their water bottles as the coaches of the cheerleaders (girls) walked by. Such blatant sexism had my blood boiling.
I don't recall so many people at football games when I was in school. Seems to me I saw more people under the bleachers back then than in them.
But that could be a faulty memory. And of course I was with the band, not roaming the field, so maybe I just didn't see.
Better luck next week, Cavaliers!
Heheh, cool. Did you happen to take those shots on "Speed" mode?
ReplyDeleteI was using the sports mode, the one with the little person running on the Canon. I guess that is speed. I thought the camera did very well.
ReplyDeleteYes, that is the mode I was speaking of. I think it is very handy and have enjoyed it with my fast fish but I was asking another girl why she wasn't using a speed mode in some situations and she said that it made the picture grainy.
ReplyDeleteI went back and took a closer look on my speed pictures and they were indeed more grainy than the others. I think.
These football photos turned out well but I think I can see some graininess but I suppose you probably resized them so it is hard to tell.
I'll have to stick with it though because I am not going to spend thousands on a professional camera and then have to learn about aperature. That would stink.
It does make the picture a little grainy, esp. in lower light levels. But it works very well and the shutter speed is much faster and indeed is the only way I have found to take pictures that come out at all after dark in such arenas. I'm with you, for the price of a professional camera, I think this does just fine.
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