Last year, in an effort to increase our reach within Orange County, Loretta contacted Ed Killenberger, the owner of a new business called I9 Sports. After a lengthy phone conversation and a meeting or two, we had a contract between the two companies and a perfect match was made!
After covering his fall Flag Football and winter Basketball games, Ed expressed his 100% complete satisfaction with the way we’ve operated and made the announcement that we had become his “official” league photographer. This annoucement couldn’t mean more to us!
With this agreement, we’ll continue covering all of Ed’s operations as he expands into new sports and new towns within the Orange County area. We look forward to the opportunity to work with another great local business!
For more information on I9 Sports and their motto of “An Experience Beyond The Game”, be sure to check out their website at http://www.i9sports.com.
Before the Eldred vs. John A Coleman Basketball game got underway, the player introductions were held in the middle of the court and this was one shot that I was able to capture as the team came together. I had a few others, but the focus point was somewhere behind them … so I had a nice sharp wall and fuzzy players!
This image was shot using our Mark III with a 70-200mm lense zoomed to about 150mm. We used an off camera flash, wirelessly triggered with the camera set to F3.5 at 1/200th with the ISO at 400.
Posted February 28, 2008 By
Chris Wanamaker |
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Last night we headed up to Kingston, New York for the Section 9 Class D semi-final basketball game between John A Coleman Catholic and Eldred High School. Loretta’s little brother, Robert, was one of the players for the Eldred team.
We arrived a little early so we had time to setup our strobes at the end of the gym. Thankfully, there was a small stage at one end of the court where we could setup everything as there was barely any room behind the hoops. Using some tips given to us by a friend, we set our strobes and cameras to the proper settings and took a couple of test shots of the girls basketball game, which was in the third period when we arrived.
As the game got underway, the points lead bounced back and forth between the two teams until John A Coleman had a series of dead on shots and fouls in their favor. From this moment forward, the points between the teams would be close, but the players for Eldred weren’t able to regain the lead.
Here are a couple shots of both teams in action …
Excited to see some of the shots we got, I immediately downloaded the cards at 11:30PM last night and began browsing through a bunch of the shots. As I viewed the thumbnails, I saw this great shot of a John A Coleman player “attacking” the ball as it bounced off the back board …
… And this image of a couple players during a foul shot …
I guess thats what “extreme concentration” looks like!