Here is a portrait I did of Football player Robert Woods a few months back. I couldn’t post it until it was printed.
I was very happy with how the shots turned out on this shoot. Robert was a real class act to work with and even told me about Sand Dune Park! Where he works out…along with a bunch of other athletes including Kobe Bryant. You might remember that guy from the NBA Championship he just won. Alas, I did not take a portraits (or even see him) on this shoot.
The first photo was at Sand Dune Park in Manhattan Beach CA. When you first step up to it, it looks simple but I was surely winded after just walking (at a fast pace) up the hill to a little over the half way point and I was training for a marathon!
One of the baseball players I took pictures of for the cover of ESPN rise just graduated high school and was drafted 5th overall by the Orioles! Im really happy he went so high. Hes a great guy and I wish him the best.
Here are some photos.
Blogging and I have a love/hate relationship and we weren’t speaking for quite a while, but now we are back together. (it was a very heartfelt reunion) Well anyway I have a few posts in the works so stay tuned.
These are not all of them, just some ones I had in front of me.
For the last few months, people have been asking me about the post-production involved in the photos on my blog post "70 basketball portraits I did in two days." I always planned on sharing it with everyone but just haven't had time to put anything together until now. Recently, I was asked to do a guest post for Scott Kelby's blog and thought, "What better way to share this Photoshop tip with everyone than on Mr. Photoshop himself's blog, Scott Kelby?" I was pretty giddy, to say the least.
Read More Post a comment (31)Here are some portraits I did for ESPN Rise magazine on one of the top female basketball players in the country. She was great to work with and was a natural in front of the camera.
Plus I felt pretty short next to here (shes 6′2).
This was for a cover and inside feature story so I tried to get some photos in her normal clothes as well as her uniform.
Here are some of my favorites.
Be sure to click on the photos for larger sizes.
I had the privilege to photograph a boxer a few weeks ago and here is one of my favorite shots from the short session. I had to place black stretching mats behind the ropes because there were large mirrors surrounding the ring. I placed them behind the ropes so I wouldn’t get a lot of reflection from the light and so you wouldn’t see me in the frame.
For the shot I used a ABR800 ring flash at a very low power to fill the front (I find it very harsh at higher settings) I also used an Alien bee B800 with a beauty dish above him pointing towards his back for separation from the background.
So, its been a long time since my last entry, I know. I have a few excuses! I swear! First, the magazines I work for have to print the photos before I can post them. Second, I’m lazy. OK, well I’m not lazy, but over the past few months I have been neglecting my blog. That is going to change. I am going to try and blog a lot more often. I have a few blogs I am going to try and post this week starting with this one, so please stay tuned.
I will be speaking at the PDN Photo Plus expo in New York this year for the “Sports Photography Today” session. I had the opportunity to do this last year and am very grateful to be ask back again to act as newcomer on this panel with three of the greatest sports photography minds of all time.
I just got a few tear sheets (PDF’s) from ESPN Rise magazine the other day as well as a nice surprise from SI in the mail.
These photos where chosen by the magazine but were part of my initial edit when I sent them the raw files.
The rise magazine photos booth ran at a page and a quarter (or so).
About a month or so ago I shot a few portraits of Jane Rah, a high school golf rock star who has already played in the LPGA tour. Here are some of my favorites and a few set ups. Sorry, I dont have more. It was a rush to get all the photos we needed in before the sunset. We met around 6:30 so we wouldn’t have to deal with such harsh light. I brought along my awesome assistants Chris and Brian to help trek the gear around the golf course. Luckily when we showed up we had a golf cart waiting for us to load up.
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