Wanamaker Sports Photography

For the second time in as many weeks, I covered another high school basketball game. However, this time I had a little help – from Loretta and our new EOS 1D Mark IV camera. This match-up between Burke-Catholic and Liberty was the final home game of the season for Burke.

Not wanting to setup and tear down equipment like last time, we decided to forgo strobes and instead push our new camera to see what it could produce with its incredible low-light capabilities. We also decided to experiment with its hi-def recording abilities in order to create a fusion slideshow when we were done. Needless to say, the camera performed amazingly!

For most of the game, Loretta and I sat tucked in a door frame at the far end of the gym. Due to its small size, we didn’t have many places to go where we could get good shots and not get run over by one of the players or hit with a wild ball.

Here are a couple of our favorites from the game …

At the end of the JV game, we decided to stay a little longer and grab some shots of the Varsity team. A post with those images is coming soon!

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Last night, I headed out to Burke Catholic High School in Goshen to grab some images of the JV Basketball team playing against Pine Bush as a favor for a friend of mine. Arriving early, I looked around the see where I could setup my strobes for the best possible lighting at the one end of the court. I spent about 20 minutes getting them setup and dialed in perfectly and proceeded to sit down on the court to start getting some shots of the team warming up. Just as I sit down, one of the coaches comes over to me and asks to have the strobes turned off. So I did all that work and couldn’t even use my fancy lighting setup …

I turned everything off, reset the camera and changed my settings for the best! Having not photographed a basketball game in over two years, I was a bit rusty with the first few shots – hands covering faces, bad timing on throws … you name it and I caught it. However, it didn’t take long for me to get back into the rhythm of things and capturing awesome shots.

Unfortunately, because the lighting in the gym was horrible (like most of the school around the area), the raw out-of-the-camera shots aren’t the best looking and need to be lightened up a bit. However, after breezing through my shots from the game, here are a couple of the ones that I liked the most!

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It’s that time again. Time for pompoms, interesting sock designs and lots of cheering girls (and guys)!

Next Saturday, January 30th, we will be at the Minisink Valley High School for the 2010 Minisink Valley Cheer Competition. We’ll have our tables setup in the back corner of the gym, printing pictures and creating buttons, all while the competition is going on! Be sure to stop by and check out our awesome cheer posters, team portraits and all of the other cool products we’ll have on display!

As a follow-up to Sunday’s youth football game between the Marlboro Dukes Division 2 Black team and Washingtonville, we’ve put together a slideshow showcasing some of our favorite shots!

Just as fast as the football season started this year, it finally came to an end yesterday. One of our contracted leagues, Marlboro Youth Football, had their Division 2 Black team make it to the Orange Country Youth Football Superbowl at Faller Field in Middletown New York.

Knowing how important this game was, we decided to head out to the field a little early so we could get shots of the players warming up. While walking down to the field, we couldn’t believe how many people filled the stands. It almost had the energy and feel of a high school football game!

As the Middletown versus Warwick game was coming into its final seconds, we made our way to the far side of the field to setup for the Marlboro versus Washingtonville game. While setting up, we realized that one of our friends was a coach for the Warwick team. When his team was crowned the winner, we took a few moments to grab some team shots with their new trophy!

Once the field was clear, Marlboro warmed up a bit more and before we knew it, the game was underway. Letting Washingtonville slip by with the first touchdown, Marlboro worked hard to get the scored tied – which came just a few downs later. Unfortunately, a missed field goal would let Washingtonville keep the lead.

With both sides playing hard, I found it easy to keep warm in the 50 degree air as I was continually running up and down the field to stay ahead of the action. Heading into half time, Marlboro was down by a touch down and a two point conversion. Unfortunately, they were unable to dig themselves out of the hole and ended the game with a loss. The hardest part of the day was looking at the disappointment in the faces of all the players!

Though Marlboro lost, we did get some great shots of the players in action! Check out some of the image below!