Garrad Mathews - Porfolio / Blog

I have never attempted to shoot sports. My main reason being because I don’t have the correct lenses or a camera that can take multiple shots quickly (which is changing because I just ordered a 30D for only $650). So for this assignment, I decided to get some stuff from checkout and give sports a try. Last night I went to the Lions High School All-Star football game which took place at the UCM Vernon Kennedy field. Many of the shots I got were pretty blurred from the action and that is because I hate upping the ISO for a better exposure in low lighting. I finally gave in, upped the ISO, upped the shutter speed, and got a few decent shots - although they are still a bit soft. Thanks to Jackie for letting me borrow her lenses with IS… and to Amy for letting me use the massive 300mm for a few shots. Here is the whole lot of images and here is a slideshow. Below are some of my favorites. And yes, the yellow-ish tint was intentional. I think it adds more atmosphere to otherwise uncreative compositions.

This is just a slideshow of random images I have made over the past year or so. Not many of them fit into a specific category… and some just aren’t very good, so here they are labeled as “random.” Just click the picture or the right arrow to go through the images.

Here are a few random still lifes that I have done in the past. I very rarely find time to make it up to the school’s studio to work on more still work, so I’m quite limited with what I have to show.



Here are some newer and some older images I have taken over the past year. I love to photograph my good friend Sara, so the majority of my portrait work thus far has been of her.