Matthew Cavanah http://www.cavanahphoto.com Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:27:24 +0000 en hourly 1 Set to Cute Factor 10. Engage! http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/08/set-to-cute-factor-10-engage/ http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/08/set-to-cute-factor-10-engage/#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:26:27 +0000 mcavanah http://www.cavanahphoto.com/?p=794
I covered a few shifts for a sick coworker about a week ago and headed out to the Central Missouri Humane Society to shoot the employees moving animals back into their newly renovated shelter on Big Bear Blvd. They didn’t actually add any square footage to the shelter, but with new animal enclosures and specialized airflow systems it is a whole heck of a lot healthier for the animals.
I had actually done a bit of volunteering for CMHS over the summer, but didn’t really stick with it. So it was nice to actually get to see these people finally get what they had worked so hard for.

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]]> http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/05/fly/feed/ 0 Gettin’ Wet http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/04/gettin-wet/ http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/04/gettin-wet/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:05:31 +0000 mcavanah http://www.cavanahphoto.com/blog/?p=158 I’ve been working at MizzouRec for the last two and a half years and I’ve made a name for myself around there for my enthusiasm to get wet and take some pictures. I mean, hey, who wouldn’t want to take some pictures of little kids having a ton of fun in a pool? On top of that, they Rec purchased some new equipment, including a Canon 16-35mm f/2.8. The only other lens we had up until now that fit into our underwater housing was a Caon 17-85 f/4-5.6. Having those extra stops has paid off big time with the new lens. And I don’t have to worry about the corners getting cut off by the housing anymore. Here’s a shot from my shoot tonight.
swim lessons, mizzou rec, matthew cavanah, underwater photographer

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WARNING: If you get queasy from blood or just don’t want to see raw, unprepared fish, you might want to just skip the rest of the photos.



]]> http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/04/fishing-trip-with-dad/feed/ 1 Rise and Fall (Or Win Some, Lose Some pt. 2) http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/03/rise-and-fall-or-win-some-lose-some-pt-2/ http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/03/rise-and-fall-or-win-some-lose-some-pt-2/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:01:23 +0000 mcavanah http://www.cavanahphoto.com/blog/?p=128 Missouri splits it’s Championship Basketball across two weekends to accommodate the 80 games played by 40 teams across 5 classes. So I was back and Mizzou Arena, and even Hearnes Center, to shoot some more High School State Basketball. This week I was stringing for the St. Joseph News-Press covering the Class 1 Jefferson girls and Class 3 Maryville girls. Didn’t get a whole lot out of Maryville, who pretty much shot exclusively from the perimeter, and lost their first game and won the 3rd place game.
Jefferson was a different story. They made it to the Championship game, probably with a few bruises too-Class 1 girls play rough. But they couldn’t win out so I got the whole range of emotion from just one team. It was fun and even a little gut wrenching. In all the dejection photos I’ve taken, I don’t think I’ve ever had a harder time editing them. Partially because I had so much from just one girl, who was a freshman no less (there wasn’t even one senior on the team), and because I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone so torn up about it.




]]> http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/03/rise-and-fall-or-win-some-lose-some-pt-2/feed/ 0 You Win Some…You Lose Some http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/03/you-win-some-you-lose-some/ http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/03/you-win-some-you-lose-some/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:15:47 +0000 mcavanah http://www.cavanahphoto.com/blog/?p=115 I covered two teams for two different papers last weekend for the Missouri State High School Basketball Tournament. It was a lot of work, especially since both teams made it to the championships and the championship games were back to back. But I was able to get both ends of the spectrum since Notre Dame lost thier game, but Kearney won.

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]]> http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/02/yoga/feed/ 0 Half an hour, one light, a ladder, and 60 women (and 4 guys) http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/02/half-an-hour-one-light-a-ladder-and-60-women-and-4-guys/ http://www.cavanahphoto.com/2010/02/half-an-hour-one-light-a-ladder-and-60-women-and-4-guys/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:05:00 +0000 mcavanah http://www.cavanahphoto.com/blog/?p=87 I shot a group photo of all the Tiger X instructors at the Rec Center (well the ones that showed up anyway, there are more than 70). I had some advance notice on this, but still had a bit of a last minute rush to come up with things. I didn’t find out until the day before the shoot that there would be 70+ people in the photo, which threw my plans for the shoot out the window. Plus one of the Rec’s Alien Bee 800s burnt out while I was doing a yoga shoot the day before (look for some of those to come tomorrow). So when I got to work, I basically had half an hour to find a new location and figure out how to light it for about 60 people using only one light and a softbox. No problem.

I grabbed a small ladder (about 5 ft) and cranked my light stand up as high as it could go, angled down about 35 degrees. I turned the softbox horizontal and gaff taped a 20×30″ piece of foam core board to the top to act as a bounce card to push the light back a bit. Little bit of guess and check on the exposure and viola!

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