Bethanne, our picture coordinator for the High Point Youth Soccer League, loves our work. She also has a son on the Sussex-Wantage Little League. Unfortunately, the league’s current photographer doesn’t provide any action photography services nor do they provide the custom posters we’ve been offering since January.
With that in mind, Bethanne invited us to one of her son’s final games to grab some action shots so she could create a custom poster of her son in action. As I headed towards third base, Loretta took first and we both covered second and the home plate. Since her son was the catcher, most of our attention was focused there … although we did capture some shots of the other kids in hopes of a few extra sales!
We stayed for only a few innings and captured nearly 500 shots! Here are a few of our favorites …
Posted February 03, 2008 By
Chris Wanamaker |
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This past Saturday, we photographed our first ever Cheerleading Competition at the Minisink Valley Ultimate Cheerleading Competition. While we’ve photographed cheerleaders at football games, we were still in the dark about what we’d encounter during the event itself. Let me start off by saying that cheerleaders at football games are a bit more predictable. These competitions happened fast and moved over every possible inch of the mat!
Shots like the one above pretty much became the theme of the day. While each of us tried our best to anticipate the next flip, kick or jump … we found that we were swinging the lenses around in hopes that we’d capture something great. Well, we did get some great shots … but not the ones we had in mind!
The shot above was taken with our Mark III with a 70-200mm lens and a hot-shoe mounted flash at F2.8 at 1/250 with the ISO at 1250. Most of our close-up shots of the girls in action yielded more roller-coaster and screaming-match shots … except for this one … which was taken during the actual performance itself. After becoming an instant classic, we all started comparing our “frozen face” shots as the rest of the day went on … but nothing seemed to top this one!
