Me: 'So I have this idea to shoot the girls soccer pictures at night using a smoke machine!'
Tammy who asked me if I'd photograph the girls: "Awesome, lets do it!"
That conversation was over the summer and tonight we did it. The lighting wasn't easy, but i had a couple of assistants - thanks to some willing parents - and the the wind was making the smoke from the smoke machine nearly impossible to control, but we figured it out and tried to make a different look to MASH girls Soccer. As with all things I do I immediately see things to do better next time around, but these turned out ok I think, especially for a first try. These girls seemed to want to have their pictures done in a different way than they have in the past and that is very great. I'm going to work on these pictures this coming week and try to find a way to make them really sing--I'm even thinking about playing with the idea of black and white for some aspects of the photos, I'll experiment and see if anyone likes it before I commit to it though! SayerMotter Photographs by Richard Sayer. And the fire department wasn't called!
Tammy who asked me if I'd photograph the girls: "Awesome, lets do it!"
That conversation was over the summer and tonight we did it. The lighting wasn't easy, but i had a couple of assistants - thanks to some willing parents - and the the wind was making the smoke from the smoke machine nearly impossible to control, but we figured it out and tried to make a different look to MASH girls Soccer. As with all things I do I immediately see things to do better next time around, but these turned out ok I think, especially for a first try. These girls seemed to want to have their pictures done in a different way than they have in the past and that is very great. I'm going to work on these pictures this coming week and try to find a way to make them really sing--I'm even thinking about playing with the idea of black and white for some aspects of the photos, I'll experiment and see if anyone likes it before I commit to it though! SayerMotter Photographs by Richard Sayer. And the fire department wasn't called!
Below, I began working out a design for the sports mate, not sure if I'm sold on it 100% but I'll work it out over the week off from work I have coming up. I did laugh though as I was working out the design I never looked to see if the girl featured in the picture even wanted a sports mate.... she doesn't! I one time design a sports/memory mate for a team before looking at the orders only to discover that no one ordered a sports/memory mate... you'd think I'd learn. Anyway I'm going to give this a day or two and decide if I want to totally re-work the idea or just tweak things a little. I do have another thought that I'll need to try! As well as doing one with just the varsity team