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.
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.
Last weekend I shot a basketball scrimmage, and it was relatively uneventful. The worst part was captioning since the Illini wear practice jerseys without numbers on the front, and the numbers on the back are almost indecipherable. The worst part was getting to know the freshmen, but I hear that they’re supposed to be a good recruiting class so it’s good to get to know their names and faces now so that I can know who to cheer for in a few years once I’m gone and they make the NCAA championship game again.
I wanted to go on the ice for some shots, but Jeremy and I went before practice, AND Brad was running late from class. Blerg. On a side note the hockey locker room smells bad and is tiny.
