Jump

Another sportrait flew my way this week. This photo was to accompany a story on the lack of high school senior basketball stars this year but a promising junior class which will lead to an even better season next year. Luckily my chosen subjects were a bit of hams and up for jumping and dunking for me as much as possible before we got tossed out of the gym for a game to begin.

Pool Time

Yes, it's the camera-in-an-aquarium half-in/half-out thing. My assignment was a portrait of 5 swimmers at a local high school, of which, 4 played other sports and they wanted those sports pictured as well. The guys were good sports about standing in the water for a bit of time as I and another staffer tried to get two SB-800s to the bottom of the pool. When we finally got them down there they weren't syncing so we ended up placing them in the 10-gallon aquarium with the camera and firing down through the bottom. The out of water lighting was my two alien bees, one at the left with a 40-degree grid spot and another at the right with an umbrella.

Basketball POY

POY "sportraits"
It's that time of year again... play of the year.
And sick of the typical waist high portrait I ventured into a different direction with the boy players of the year. Since I had two out of three on the first day I decided on the "look" of the photos and just went with it.
(With the aid of some of the guy photographers in the office and cheering on the basketball players. I guess if one guy thinks it's cool the rest will too.) Either way it worked.
The basketball players loved it and were pumped to keep jumping for me until I got the shot.