One light, one minute, one goal: Variety
I'll be doing a lot of sports team photos this year for increased coverage of school sports, and the goal I've set myself is to make every one of them different. For most of them I'll be using a single off-camera flash and I'll only have a minute or so to do each picture. But I'm sick of seeing the same old team line-up shots in every paper so I think it's important to strive for originality.
The first two were done yesterday. Now admit it, if these were on a page with a dozen standard line-up shots, you'd look at these first, wouldn't you?
about 3 years ago
Nicely done. I’ve noticed team photos on this side of the Atlantic tend to have a really boring format that isn’t worth glancing at.
How much posing did you do in the Pink and Black team – or was most of the group just standing casually?
about 3 years ago
I asked them to stand in a group but spread out a bit and not in lines. Then I repositioned some of them and that was that.
about 3 years ago
Now this is something i’d love to try. What kind of lens were you using?
was this natural light or did you have lights set up?
about 3 years ago
Both shots were 24mm on a 1.3 crop body, so 31mm approx. Both were done in bright sunlight with one flash to frame left, using the sun as a rim light. Fast shutter speed to darken the ambient.