Prep Sports: St. Rita Mustangs vs. Providence Catholic

Hello everybody,

Welcome to my first attempt at blogging a Fig gig! On September 22nd, Hafeez and I trekked out to Providence Catholic to see them battle our St. Rita Mustangs. There was a little conflict of interest on Hafeez's end, since he was actually a graduate of Providence! Regardless, he did his videography wonderfully and my photography turned out well also.

The big problem we ran into on our way to this gig was the GETTING THERE part. Good ol' MapQuest gave us the runaround and had us confused and lost for quite a while. In traffic. During rush hour. Seriously, why do people still use MapQuest if they know it's going to be wrong? Has MapQuest ever been accurate for you? Because it's consistently conned me into believing it on several occasions. You'd figure that I, as well as many other people, would learn by now and just use an actual map. We ended up getting to the football field in plenty of time and were able to get some establishing and warm-up footage for the game.

I learned a ton this night, since it was my first time using the digital SLR at night. Steve taught me a bunch before I left Fig, and I wound up teaching myself a lot more when everything was more hands-on. I was having a little trouble adjusting to manual mode, but ended up loving the creative flexibility it gave me to get more unique shots. Simply having control of exposure and manual focus made me really happy.

Hafeez and I were worried for a bit around halftime, when it began to lightly rain. We dug into our high-end arsenal of A/V equipment and whipped out our defense: plastic garbage bags! I was glad the rain let off after 10 minutes or so, because it was such a pain having to focus the camera through a plastic baggie. But regardless, I was proud of the shots I came up with and they look great on the PSO website.

The game itself was particularly exciting. It was a low-scoring game, which I personally love because both defensive lines were making big plays. It came down to a field goal by St. Rita with 3 seconds left in the 4th quarter to win. Good stuff.

Overall, a great night with footage and photos to prove it. Is there any way we could maybe fly to the game next time?

-Owen