Bowie-Tomball Texas softball tourney
Canyon-Magnolia Texas softball tourney
I worked a later shift today and covered two games in the UIL softball state semifinals. The first was a bit challenging because the harshness of the sunlight at the field. Shooting in harsh, mid-day sunlight is hard because you have to tip toe around your shots, waiting for subjects to pass through shade or to face the sun directly. Today was also challenging because it was extremely hot. A thermometer on the outfield scoreboard hit 95 degrees at one time.
Service dog training
ATX Day 2
Day two of my internship is in the books. After a lot of paperwork and getting acquainted with the newsroom on Tuesday, today I got to go shoot my first two assignments. The first was a local racetrack where drivers can get instruction using their own vehicles (last two photos). The second was a local middle school’s last day of school. Here’s my favorite shots from today:
Hawn-Sands wedding
I don’t shoot a lot of weddings. I think this is my fourth wedding, and the third I have done for someone I know. (I went to middle school and high school with the groom, Josh Hawn.) Unlike a lot of wedding photographers, I don’t dwell on formal, lit portraits. Instead, I try to treat it as if I were shooting a newspaper assignment with amazing access to the subjects. I shoot the standard shots expected, but then I look a bit deeper and try to get what I like to think of as in-between moments. The first shot below is an example of that. One big inspiration of this style for me is Pete Souza, the current White House Photographer. Naturally, Souza has amazing access to the president, and he uses it not only to get the standard podium shots, but also those in-between moments that tell a better story about the subject’s real personality.
