Just a couple of images that I felt floated to the top of the attempt to keep the paper above water in the holiday story scrum of recent weeks.
A sportrait. Grace Tinkey is a formidable middle distance runner in our area. She always makes the best athletes of the year list at our paper. As such, coming up with new ways to shoot her is a challenge. Here was this year's attempt.
One more Christmas image before we bah humbug into the year. The police in Macon, GA do an annual holiday party complete with a toy raffle and Santa Claus. Here a little girl who had her number drawn picks a brand new bike. You think she'll remember the light in that room?
Finally, the first baby of the year in our coverage area. Happy parents, sleepy baby. Maybe there's a connection?
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Sportrait
I'm not really sure when I first heard the term Sportrait. I think maybe Tommy Metthe, a college friend who shoots in TX, taught me the term. He's good at them, for sure. Here's the link to Tommy's blog..... http://tommysmodernlife.blogspot.com/ .
An obvious bit of short hand, Sportrait denotes a portrait made of an athlete. You do a lot of these at a newspaper.
Why all the sportraits? You have a lot of stories, and a lot of sports pages to fill, between games. And obsession of fans continues unabated between Fridays, at least in the case of high school football. We produce a lot of stories during the week to keep interest up, contextualize the upcoming slate of games, etc. Those stories often get illustrated by the Sportrait.
So here we have the roster of receivers for the Peach County Trojans. They are undefeated in the regular season and headed into the first round of playoffs this Friday. The request to get all six (!!!) of these receivers begged for, say it with me, the Sportrait.
For the gear heads, I shot this with a mix of natural light from the burning ball of hydrogen that fails to make bad light this time of year and two Nikon speedlights triggered remotely. They added some light to the guy fully in shadow and opened up the shadows on the down sun (is that a term?) sides of the other players' faces. Chris Deighan, the writer of the story, was kind enough to throw the ball over and over while my timing got sorted.
Cheers,
Grant B.
An obvious bit of short hand, Sportrait denotes a portrait made of an athlete. You do a lot of these at a newspaper.
Why all the sportraits? You have a lot of stories, and a lot of sports pages to fill, between games. And obsession of fans continues unabated between Fridays, at least in the case of high school football. We produce a lot of stories during the week to keep interest up, contextualize the upcoming slate of games, etc. Those stories often get illustrated by the Sportrait.
So here we have the roster of receivers for the Peach County Trojans. They are undefeated in the regular season and headed into the first round of playoffs this Friday. The request to get all six (!!!) of these receivers begged for, say it with me, the Sportrait.
For the gear heads, I shot this with a mix of natural light from the burning ball of hydrogen that fails to make bad light this time of year and two Nikon speedlights triggered remotely. They added some light to the guy fully in shadow and opened up the shadows on the down sun (is that a term?) sides of the other players' faces. Chris Deighan, the writer of the story, was kind enough to throw the ball over and over while my timing got sorted.
Cheers,
Grant B.
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