Tuesday, September 1, 2009

ONLY IN AMERICA (VI)

IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR (AGAIN!)

The 2009-10 football season started last week


But before that, we spent a couple of weeks taking portraits of selected players for the football special section published on Sunday. I was in charge of the cover, and for that I took the players out of the usual places (locker rooms, football fields) and photographed them in different spots of their respective towns. Behind each of those portraits there's a long story (maybe I'll tell them some other time...)






The nice thing about the first two weeks is that you still can shoot the first 10 minutes of the game without using flash. Come mid September and you can forget about it... well, unless you have a nice Nikon D3 and shoot at 6400 ISO. My newspaper bought one of those a couple of weeks ago. Problem is there's 3 photogs shooting HS football, and the most veteran will probably get to use it (which I completely understand: the guy has spent 15 years shooting football with flash... I think he deserves better). As for the rest of us mortals... well that's -shooting with flash- actually the meaning I give to "Friday Night Lights."


7 comments:

cohnhead said...

sexy water shot

Aaron said...

Cool idea, and I like the sunset in the last picture.

BrainScientist said...

Fabulous job on all of these! TOTALLY dig the water shot!

Suso said...

¡¡¡Buenasssssssssssssss!!!

Gary Cosby Jr. said...

Beautiful work Jero, especially for a guy whose futbol is round! As for us crusty old veterans, we need all the help we can get, especially when there are energetic, talented young pups nipping at our heels. Okay, well, not so young but young in the business anyway (Grin!). Really nice work and just remember, photographers make pictures. Cameras are merely tools.

lluis said...

No las había visto aun!!!! Buena la del puente!!!!!!!! congrats! Hoy he comido con uno de los productores habituales de Spielberg, toda la comida hablando de los proyectos. han salido cientos de anécdotas de La lista de Schlinder, Jurassic Park, Rain Man...
Un abrazo

LL

Steve said...

I genuinely don't miss shooting high school football. Really like the last shot and the one of the guy looking confused holding the fast food tray. The one is the water is quite confusing and the one of the guy by the fast food ordering board looks quite serious considering his location.