As planned I am giving some more sports action!! It was a pretty busy sports photography related week for me with some Alpine Ski championships early in the week and the Connecticut Indoor Track Class championships and UConn men’s basketball to finish off the week. Also got some other good news, I was published in ESPN the Mag around November/December (long story) as well as the February 15th issue of Sports Illustrated!!
It was a week of opportunity as well as I was published online at the Home of High School Indoor Track and Field, www.dyestat.com, hopefully this will lead to some more work with them. Considering they are partnered and funded by ESPN RISE it could be quite the opportunity.
This weeks photos come from a sport I don’t photograph often but really love to cover, alpine skiing! There isn’t much for High School races my way let alone it is really easy to catch all of the schools at once in the championships. Considering I pretty much grab all skiers, every school will be covered. Enjoy this weeks photos!!!
This was early in the day, I set up at the next gate down the course and shot up toward this gate trying to get some nice light to the back of the skier. Was a good day over all playing with light.
I really enjoyed the light coming from where I was shooting from, for one it was a challenge as I had the sun pretty much in my eyes all morning long, but it led to some really nice images to be made.
This one has been named the chicken wing by many. He was on his way to shift skis when I made this, as I mentioned before I really love the backlighting from the sun. Really makes the images pop.
Granted for most of the day I was disappointed with the quality of the skiers, even the ones in the top 30. But there were still a few really good ones. I am hoping there will be a lot more quality skiers at the MIAA State Championships at Wachusett Mountain next week. There should be they are all out to win a championship!!
As you can see I changed locations for the women’s event, the sun was facing pretty much into my shooting area of the boys event. So I decided on trying to use the light to my advantage and shoot from the opposite side. It was a little tougher as I had to deal with some shadows as well as the boys racing right in front of me in the Slalom event. Also I switched cameras to my D700 as I felt my D300 was focusing a little weird. After looking back at the images I’d say it was just fine, I just haven’t used it in a long while!!
Hope you all enjoyed this weeks images! I will continue with the sports related images for now. Should have some other photo assignments coming up, if I am able to post about them I will! Until next week!! Enjoy the Olympics!!
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