Orchard Park, N.Y. (WHAM) – The stadium where the Buffalo Bills have called home for the past 52 years was honored Saturday evening.
People gathered at the Highmark Stadium for the annual RIT Big Shot Project.
Close to 10,000 people filled Highmark Stadium to participate in this year’s RITs’ Big Shot Project.
The stadium is being honored before the Buffalo Bills move to a new stadium next year.
Eric Kunsman is an Assistant Professor at RIT and is also a Big Shot leader. He said, “It’s about what the Bills actually mean for Western New York. So that’s why we had to commemorate Highmark Stadium in a different way that you normally see. And that’s where, when it’s lit up and it’s painted with light, it’s going to invoke all those memories of your childhood when you brought your kids here to the stadium, your grandkids.”
Emerson Pearlberg is a Photographic Science Major at RIT and is ready to be a part of this year’s project.
She said, “I’m honestly really excited to have this opportunity just because I’m just a first-year college student and I get to be doing professional work at the Bills Stadium with professional people.”
People use flashlights to help light up the structure as RIT’s Big Shot Camera Team captures their images.
“I know that it’s something called a long exposure. So it’s where all the lights are out and the camera shutter is open for a long period of time, and it captures all the motion that’s happening,” Pearlberg said.
Big Shot has been going on since 1987.
“This year’s big shot is special because we’re using a 360 camera system. It might be 270, I think it’s 360 degrees. And it’s on a rig built by students. I was not a student that built it, but it’s going to be a really cool angle of the Highmark Stadium,” said Pearlberg. “It’s been really exciting.”
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