thunder girls

Thanks to everyone who's been following along with the Old Hat 15 Days of Christmas tweets. Yesterday I tried to pass along a few things I've learned from traveling the country shooting photos and videos for Old Hat's collegiate and professional clients. Hopefully some of you were listening and found it helpful. You can find me on Twitter here to see my tweets from the day.

Feel free to follow me and ask questions if you didn't get them in on Monday. Please don't be offended if I don't follow you back, I stay busy outside of the Twitter universe so I keep my list extremely short. You can always ask me anything via Twitter and I'll respond as promptly as possible.

• The NBA lockout is still on. Say goodbye to the first couple of weeks of the regular season. Now the pressure is really mounting to get something done. I hope for everyone's sake that the owners and players can get a deal worked out and save some of the season. We'd love to see some basketball this year.

In the NBA's absence I'll be gearing up for my K-State Wildcats and the angriest coach in America to tear it up later this winter.

Today we're talking photography stuff. You may be wondering, what does "building your light" mean? In simple terms "building light" is how you turn on multiple lights and at what strength they contribute to your final photograph.

The light we're talking about today is from our recent Thunder Girls photoshoot.

I had plenty of time to setup for this recent shoot. Which is always a huge plus and not always possible. The other thing I had going for me was a huge space with plenty of room to setup and lots of power outlets, also not always possible but greatly appreciated when it is.

A lot of space allows you plenty of room to separate your subject from the background. It means we can light the background independently of the subject, which is what we want for maximum control of the scene.

(Photo-Thunder.nba.com)

I had a great time at the Thunder Girls Media day shoot on Tuesday.

We were there to take pictures of all of the Thunder Girls for marketing materials throughout the year, the Thunder's website, autograph cards and stuff like that. It was a really tough, long day in the trenches. Ok, not really. ;)

It was a long shoot but I don't know if you can call it that tough. Shooting pictures of pretty girls is not exactly manual labor. You just point your camera in the direction of the dancer and as long as you don't screw it up they tend to come out looking pretty good.

Even Old Hat's illustrious Owner and Creative Director Zac Logsdon managed to get in on the action.

It was great to see Brian's post yesterday and some of the photos shot during our OU campus excursion. I've got a bunch of my own that I'm hoping to put up sometime soon. Look to my twitter feed where I post the occasional shot or possibly on this blog for any of those.