Had the opportunity to work as a second shooter with Julia Sieber of Sieber Studios this past weekend shooting a wedding near Ko Olina. Beautiful day, beautiful people. Julia is amazingly patient and kind hearted, and immediatley puts her clients at ease. (Even brides on their wedding day!)

Lots to learn in these situations (I'm more of sports/journalist shooter), as taking the shot is only part of the equation. Working the group, finding poses, and everything else that comes before the click of the shutter is 75% of the image. Not to mention once things start, they don't stop until the whole show's over.

Congratulaions to Ross and his beautiful new bride, and much thanks to Julia for allowing me such a great opportunity.

All images shot by Ray Mangan, in association with and ©Sieber Studios 2009

Finally had some time to get to the beach today. Work and school, and everything else in the universe always seem to conspire to keep me away from the ocean recently.

Went out for a swim with the camera, (more of a full body workout/beating). Managed to shoot for all of about 30 minutes before I lost a fin while diving under a bodyboarder. Decided to cut the session short after a while, due to strong current, and only being able to swim with one leg/arm. Figured it'd be better to make it back beach while I still had some energy left, rather than stay out too long and be completely exhausted. Ah well. Leashes on the fins next time. And no more kicking bodyboards.


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Two of my buddies have been bugging me to go and shoot one of their intramural indoor soccer games, so this week I packed up the stuff and gave indoor sports try. I decided it'd be a good chance to get some practice shooting under horrendous lighting conditions. What an understatement

I pushing all the way up to 3200iso, just to get a high enough shutter speed was necessary, even with the 300/2.8. Also found that indoor soccer is a FAST game, not just the time of the game (13 minute halves), but the action moves QUICK and tracking the ball with a long lens was a pretty challenging task.

If I get a chance to shoot another game I might bring a couple lights and stands and see if I can brighten the place up a bit.

Here's Andy and Nick doing their thing...