State Youth Games 2010

It was cold, wet, windy and cold.  And now I’m sick.  But it was a lot of fun.  We bumped in Thursday night and I got home and collapsed into bed at around 2:30am on Monday.

This year was bigger than ever.  3000 people attended (2964 registrations to be precise), which meant that they went to 5 night rallies total.  We had the band playing synced to the music video, we had the whole opening ceremony synced to the video, we had 5 cameras for the rallies, three out during the day, including a GoPro camera mounted on the heads of Dodgeball players.  Did I mention we also shot a TV-esque show during the day?  It was full on.

We’ll be uploading all the content we produced in the coming weeks, so keep an eye out on the Youth Vision Vimeo Channel.

For the very last session I decided I wanted to head on down to the front of stage and take some photos.  I met Jarrod from Horsham who was one of the organisers of State Youth Games, who was taking photos next to me as well.  He looked over and asked (well, yelled, we were standing next to the subwoofer) what ISO I was on, to which I replied about 2000, since my shutter had to be high enough to keep the images crisp.  He promptly offered me the stabalised version of that lens, much to my delight!  So I shot for a while with the 24-105 F4 IS, until he came and offered me his 70-200 F2.8 IS!!!  That was pretty much the highlight of the weekend for me, playing with very nice lenses!  The 70-200 is now very high on my wish list.  Check out the photos below on Flickr.