"Castle View's Victoria Durkop beats the tag of Lewis Palmer catcher Heather Dettrey to score their only run of the game in the third inning at Castle View High School in Castle Rock, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Lewis Palmer beat Castle View 4-1 to take home the 4A Colorado Springs Metro League title." The Gazette, Justin Edmonds
Since I was about 6 years old my family has called me MacGyver whenever they see me tinkering with things. When I was 8 I took apart a car stereo while my mom was in the shower. When I was 12 I got caught making a bonfire in out backyard. When I was 14 my brother and I built a snowboard jump in our backyard. Heck even a month ago I took apart my mom's old "soothing sounds" machine to retrieve a diode that I needed to make a special cord for my camera that is used for when I do a remote. (Non photo nerds please skip the rest of this paragraph, lol) The cord is a little to complicated to get into but it allows me to fire either just the camera in my hand or both the camera in my hand and my remote. I know all you photo nerds are like "duh" it's called a pocket wizard. Not so fast! My cord allows me to shoot with the camera in my hands without firing the remote unless I push the auxiliary button where then both cameras fire. The point is have the remote only fire when I want it to instead of wasting a ton of frames if both cameras fired all the time. If you're still confused just email me. I promise it's legit. I built it myself with the help of Sports Illustrated assistant Shawn Cullen who invented it and named it the "Wire Service Cord" since it helps wire photo
gs cut down the number of images they take so they can edit faster.
Today I got the chance to be MacGyver again as I put my new fancy cord to the test. I had to shoot prep softball in Castle Rock this afternoon between Castle View and Lewis Palmer. I'm a baseball guy (GO DODGERS btw) and since softball is basically the same thing I'm really comfortable shooting the sport. I can almost anticipate where the ball is going to go which to all you baseball people out there is commonly known as your sixth sense. Softball and baseball are great sports to use remote cameras at because you know where the action is going
to take place.
I like to shoot from the first base side of the field most of the time so I decided to put up a remote on the third base side pointing at home plate. That way when there was some action at home plate I would have two completely different angles. I can't physically be in two places at once but remotes allow me to capture multiple angles of the same moment in time.
I got lucky today and had two great plays at the plate. I fired the camera in my hand until the runner was about 15 feet from home plate and then I switched to the auxiliary button which fired both cameras. The result is two completely different images from the same moment in ti
me. My makr II and 30D fire at different frame rates so it's a little off but you get the idea.
I got a GREAT assignment to shoot a portrait of Denver Broncos running back Michael Pittman tomorrow so look for that soon.
-JCE
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