CAS Blog - February

Over the month of February, I took on the role of a freelancing photographer as a creative service to the understaffed yearbook team. This compromised of taking photos of two DISA events, boys soccer and girls basketball. Having a lot of experience in the sport of soccer and good weather conditions, I was able to take fantastic photos of the players in their best moments. Unfortunately, I had difficulty attempting to capture images of the girls playing basketball because of the terrible and mediocre lighting available in gyms C and A, respectively. The only way to circumvent the darkness of the photos was to set the ISO higher, although this produced brighter images, they were freckled with noise and odd colors. Thankfully, modern image editing software can patch up and remove such noise, it will be some extra work for the yearbook staff. I hope to be prepared next time and arrive with a flash in hand.

Badminton club was not as successful as before, the dwindling number of members has caused me to play the same opponents over and over again. Without the diversity of players previously available, the club has become less enjoyable and active. This, on the other hand, also has an upside: the limited amount of court space was no longer saturated with doubles teams. For the first time in months, I was able to play one-on-one matches in order to test my true capabilities in Badminton. I proved to be a powerful player with others complementing me on my quick reflexes. With this knowledge in hand, I can confidently say that I succeed during the upcoming SAISA Badminton season. This will be the first Badminton tournament held by the SAISA organisation. Although it will be a honor to take part, there are a lot of aspects of the game which light needs to be shed on, there will always be difficulties the first time but I hope nothing too big goes awry.