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God and Football: Photographs of Game Day at Notre Dame
November/08/07 11:45 AM
I admit it. I’m not much of a fan of
college football. But when I had an opportunity to travel to South
Bend, Indiana last week for the Notre Dame/Navy game, I took
advantage of it primarily because I’ve always wanted to personally
see the campus of Notre Dame University.
I can now safely conclude that Notre Dame is the most beautiful college campus that I’ve set foot on, and I’ve been on quite a few (more than I’d like to admit). Of course being there on a perfect fall day didn’t hurt either.
In the words of Ned Beatty in Rudy, “this is the most beautiful sight these eyes have ever seen.”
Despite the historic loss to the Naval Academy and a horrible football season, it was well worth the time and drive just to see the campus and feel the atmosphere of Notre Dame on a game day. The following are some of my favorite photographs from the images I shot while there. I would have been able to capture much clearer and more close-up images of the game itself had it not been for the fact that our seats were at the very top of the stadium. I had to make due with my Canon 1D Mark III with a Canon 300mm f4 IS L lens and 1.4 extender.
My favorite photographs were those I was able to take of the inside of the cathedral at Notre Dame. These images were captured using a Canon 1D Mark II with both Canon 28-70mm and 17-35mm L lenses and a Bogen tripod and Kirk ballhead. These photographs were post-processed first in Photoshop CS2 using the High Dynamic Range of combining four exposures into one 32-bit image file and applying a third party plug-in for tonal adjustments. Once complete I would make exposure adjustments and re-size in Aperture on my Mac Pro.
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I can now safely conclude that Notre Dame is the most beautiful college campus that I’ve set foot on, and I’ve been on quite a few (more than I’d like to admit). Of course being there on a perfect fall day didn’t hurt either.
In the words of Ned Beatty in Rudy, “this is the most beautiful sight these eyes have ever seen.”
Despite the historic loss to the Naval Academy and a horrible football season, it was well worth the time and drive just to see the campus and feel the atmosphere of Notre Dame on a game day. The following are some of my favorite photographs from the images I shot while there. I would have been able to capture much clearer and more close-up images of the game itself had it not been for the fact that our seats were at the very top of the stadium. I had to make due with my Canon 1D Mark III with a Canon 300mm f4 IS L lens and 1.4 extender.
My favorite photographs were those I was able to take of the inside of the cathedral at Notre Dame. These images were captured using a Canon 1D Mark II with both Canon 28-70mm and 17-35mm L lenses and a Bogen tripod and Kirk ballhead. These photographs were post-processed first in Photoshop CS2 using the High Dynamic Range of combining four exposures into one 32-bit image file and applying a third party plug-in for tonal adjustments. Once complete I would make exposure adjustments and re-size in Aperture on my Mac Pro.
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