Photo/Travel Blog: Week 17 -
By Andy Lopusnak, AndysPictures.com
December 29-30, 2012
My last game of 2012 took
me to Indianapolis , Indiana
A blizzard hit Indy earlier
this week that dumped more than 20 inches of snow. When I landed, it was
white-out conditions and I couldn’t see more than a few hundred feet in front
of me. It’s was a slushy mess with sleet-type snow off and on. Those are pretty
terrible conditions to shoot. At night, it got better and I first nabbed a time
lapse from my hotel room looking at the Indiana State
Capital Building
Since the last time I was
in Indy in 2010, the JW Marriot hotel was completed and I wanted to get some
shots of it from the other side of the White River
near the Indianapolis Zoo.
It was below freezing but
the sky had a purplish tone and I stayed out until about nine grabbing
shots. One of my favorites was of the Indiana Word War Memorial.
COLTS 28, TEXANS 16
COLTS 28, TEXANS 16
The Colts, which were a
league-worst 2-14 last year, ended their improbable regular season with an
upset over the would-be #1 seed in the AFC playoffs beating the Texans 28-16. Houston , which is now 0-11 all-time at Indianapolis ,
would have earned home-field advantage throughout the playoffs with the win is
now the #3 seed and will host Cincinnati
next week instead of having a bye.
This was my 30th overall
Texans game covered for CBS, the most by any team. Houston is just 2-14 on the road in those
contests (10-4 at home). For the Colts, this was my 23rd game and 11th at home.
This also was the seventh time that I’ve done a Texans-Colts game (just the
second in Indy though). It is the first game at Indy that I’ve covered that was
without Peyton Manning under center.
TIME LAPSE: LOW CORNER (40D)
Back in 2010, I did two
different time lapses of Lucas Oil Stadium. We can see them by clicking here (high end zone) and here (field level).
Using the Canon 40D, I set
it up by the CBS “beauty” camera in the low corner. It took an image every 30
seconds fir the duration of the game for a total of 721 individual shots.
TIME LAPSE: SIDELINE (GOPRO HERO 3)
For Christmas, my wife got
me the GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition and for its debut, I set it up at the
50-yardline with the back-up battery from the Hero 2. It lasted a little more
than three hours of what should have been five. I went out this week and bought the version 2 battery pack so this shouldn't be a issue in the future. At an interval of every 30
seconds, it took a total of 371 images.
TIME LAPSE: TV PRODUCTION TRUCK (GOPRO HERO 2)
For a behind the scenes
look at how CBS Sports broadcasts games, I set the GoPro Hero 2 behind the
director showing his view of the multitude of monitors. Using just the one
battery, the Hero 2 took 865 images using an interval of every 10 seconds
totaling almost two and an half hours.
UP NEXT: TEMPLE AT KANSAS BASKETBALL
Next week, I head to Lawrence , Kansas for my
second college basketball game of the 2012-13 season when Temple
visits Kansas .
This will be my third trip to Allen Fieldhouse.
BEST OF THE BLOG
Here’s my favorite shots
from this past weekend in Indianapolis .
nice stuff, as usual. I was in Indy twice, and posted some shots of my own. The first week, it was really cold, so I didn't venture too far from the hotel. The 2nd week, it was milder, but I still stuck with downtown. I have the same shot of the Capitol from my hotel window; there was a weird cloud pattern when I was there. I did miss the blizzard, tho!
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