Insider view of an 18 day sports assignment.

vintagesnaps · Feb 13, 2015

No I didn't know that trick, thanks I could use that some time.

That fridge looks sadly understocked.

Who are you covering this for?

spiralout462 · Feb 13, 2015

vintagesnaps said:
No I didn't know that trick, thanks I could use that some time.

That fridge looks sadly understocked.

Who are you covering this for?

I thought the fridge looked like it had all the essentials to sustain life.

imagemaker46 · Feb 14, 2015

Opening Ceremony photos. It was a rather uneventful day, 3 receptions shot before the opening. I also found out that the host organizers have 50 amateur camera owners running around this event. I have had the opportunity I meeting a few, good people, but out of their element and enjoying the show just pointing their camera at anything.

Opening ceremony takes some by surprise, there is just so much going on that it's difficult for some people to see anything to shoot. It's all spot lights and movement. The person in charge of where the best photo positions are didn't have a clue, and that only created greater confusion for the Canada Games 50. It worked out just fine for me, and I played around with some images.

If anyone wants to see all the images I am uploading each day the link is:

Flickr canadagames Photostream

imagemaker46 · Feb 14, 2015

Images from my first day of sports. The transportation is a little out of whack right now. I called for a ride this morning at 7:00am and was told by the dispatcher "Good luck with a ride, we'll try and get there" They did arrive and I headed out to shoot 2 ringette games and 2 women's hockey games. Tomorrow's sports, archery, short track speed skating, artistic gymnastics, curling. First event starts at 9am last one starts at 7pm.

tirediron · Feb 14, 2015

Nice work Scott!

baturn · Feb 15, 2015

I have to tell you that BC has much better beers to offer than Kokanee. But to each their own.
Oh, and what John said. :adoration:

imagemaker46 · Feb 15, 2015

Ya I know they do, but it was free.

tirediron · Feb 15, 2015

imagemaker46 said:
Ya I know they do, but it was free.

Oddly enough, that's my favorite flavour!

imagemaker46 · Feb 15, 2015

Day two shooting. Archery, Gymnastics, Speed Skating and Curling to come. It has already been a long day, out the door at 8am, back to the hotel for a couple of hours and heading back out at 7pm for curling.

imagemaker46 · Feb 15, 2015

Curling. I did a little slow shutter speed shooting tonight.

pgriz · Feb 16, 2015

Very nice panning, Scott. Also, really love the intensity that you're capturing in the other shots.

imagemaker46 · Feb 16, 2015

Shot Women's downhill and Wheelchair basketball. Down side to climbing up the side of a ski hill is that sometimes the ice hidden under the snow adds a surprise, after I picked myself up and hobbled up a little higher I found an ok place to shoot from. Tomorrow I expect my knee, which took most of the hit will be swollen and using a 300mm as prop to stop me sliding any further is just fine.

On the hill at 9:00am, and left wheelchair basketball at 8pm, made for another long day. I found out that the long track speed skating has been moved 6 hours away because of the warm weather, I won't be covering the speed skating.

Here are a few from today.

weepete · Feb 17, 2015

Outstanding work mate. I particularly like the dynamism you've captured in the wheelchair basketball.

MichaelHenson · Feb 17, 2015

This is awesome! If you don't mind my asking (and feel free to hold your response until when you have more time...

) what is your workflow/processing approach. I recently did photos for a marriage conference my wife and I attended and ended up spending a good deal of my downtime processing photos to correct the color (due to red and orange LEDs in the lighting), cropping, and reducing noise due to the poor lighting (despite using a flash on camera with a Fong diffuser). It got me thinking about sports photographers taking hundreds (or thousands) of photos in a day and then having to quickly get them uploaded or sent for publication...Just curious as to your approach.

Also, your work is amazing! Inspirational!