My name is Dean Santarinala, and I am a 20-something living in the Chicagoland area trying to find my place in the Universe. I have always enjoyed art and drawing, and along the way I picked up a camera and fell in love with photography.
I shot Volleyball, Football, and Hockey a few weekends ago. I should’ve tried to get into the basketball game, too. :-P
The hardest part about shooting so much is sorting through everything, choosing the 20 best, processing/editing, and captioning all of them. So time consuming.
Took a trip downtown with the DIP crew again, this time Jeremy and Josh came along too, but I missed them because I missed my train and didn’t arrive till later in the afternoon. And I don’t blame them for leaving early — it was pretty cold, wet, and miserable downtown, so I left after a few hours as well.
No hood internet this time. Tripods are awesome.
It’s 2:30am and I’m bored so I whipped up a sweet indie-hip/hop-DJ-mashup slideshow of my photos from the basketball game against Presby College that I shot with Ned on Saturday. We didn’t have any on-air audio for an audio slideshow so I told Ned to just use techno music instead. He didn’t, so this is an idea of what I think should have made the DI website on Sunday morning. :-P The musical cues don’t work the whole time, and I sort of ran out of photos, but it’s fun and stupid so who cares…
Here are a few of my faves from the football game this weekend. I don’t know what’s up with me lately, I sort of feel like I’m in a slump.
Shot the Jay Z concert last night at Assembly Hall for the DI. I only got to stay for two songs (and 90% of that time was looking through my viewfinder while my arm got sore holding my 1D+70-200 over my head) while N.E.R.D. and Jay Z performed. It was still pretty cool nonetheless. I was having a ton of autofocus issues looking back at my photos, but I have a feeling they were my fault and not the 1D3 — so I came out unsatisfied. Blerg. Brad got some really nice shots, ‘check em out. And yeah, how do High School newspapers get credentials for this stuff? I feel old.
