The Sandpoint Varsity Girls Soccer team hosted the Grizzlies of Newport yesterday afternoon. It was a hard fought game on both sides with Sandpoint coming out ahead 3-1. Here are some photos from the game, please check out the links on this page for full galleries and to order prints.
The first time I photographed Jim was at a basketball game in Coeur d’Alene back in 2010. The defending state champion Priest River Spartans looking for strong competition were playing the Coeur d’Alene Vikings and during a stop in play I was taking photos of the Priest River fans from across the gym. One of the fans noticed I was taking photos, stood up and pointed at me, I took this photo.
The reason I remember this is the fact that it started something that continued through the rest of the season, at every game I would look for Jim and he would look for me so we could get yet another photo of him doing the “The Point”. We tried to mix it up every now and then and get a variety of “Point” shots.
Now a couple of years later I have had the privilege of taking Jim’s senior photos as well as some photos with his sisters, yes we had to sneak in a pointing shot.
Alright, enough pointing fingers let’s get on with some senior photos!
Right around sunset we were at a perfect spot and the sky was amazing. The next shots were all taken at the same spot only minutes apart, we simply turned different directions and were able to get very different looks.
This year Steve Russo and the staff at the Sandpoint Newsline took on the tack of creating and publishing the 2012 Sandpoint Bulldog Football Program. Steve and I are both sticklers for quality so when he contacted me about shooting some portraits for the program as well as for the upcoming September issue of the Newsline I was thrilled. The inside of the program also features many of my action photos and for every home game they will be publishing a new program featuring one of my action photos on the cover. Here are some of the published and unpublished photos from my shoot with the team.
We took a number of different vertical shots to give the Newsline plenty of options for the cover. We did some individual shots. . .
We squeezed did a group shot with 6 athletes and Coach Puailoa
And a couple of shots with three of the linemen
This is the one they ended up using, minus the victory bell.
We also did a couple of old school shots and I processed them with a grainy black and white look.
We ended the session with a lineup of linemen.
If you want to see the finished product grab a copy at any Sandpoint home game or at any of the businesses that you would normally find a Sandpoint Newsline. You can also check out the online version at this link: http://bit.ly/Ovu9CG
Here are some of the final images from my senior photos shoot with Drew in Sandpoint.
James, a Senior at Lake City High School in Coeur d’Alene recently joined up with me for his senior photos. He was particularly interested in some of the dramatic lighting that I do and I was more than happy to oblige. We started out making sure that we had a good selection of photos that pass the strict standards that Lake City has for their yearbook submissions and then using as many as 5 different lights we worked on some dramatically lit portraits of James in his full football uniform.
This last winter I had a great studio session with Kelsey, now that summer is in full swing we were able to have our outdoor session to wrap up her senior photos. Here are some of the final images from our afternoon at Priest Lake.
Here are some of my favorites from my senior photo session with Tim in Sandpoint.
Here are is a selection of my favorites from my senior photo session with Emmett.
Here are some of my favorites from Ian’s senior photo shoot.
Here are a few from a recent family session with the Valentine family.
