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Image by Kent McCracken - Reno Sports Photographer
I got my start as a professional photographer shooting sports.
Sport photography is a passion of mine. As an athlete growing up training and competing in gymnastics, track and field, wrestling, baseball and football, I quickly learned to apply my athletic training to photography combining an eye for composition and anticipation.
Image by Kent McCracken - Reno Sports Photographer - Skeet Shooting
I’ve shot most sports including golf, tennis, billiards, weight lifting, boxing, football, baseball, softball, soccer, triathlon, biathlon, track & field, motocross, mountain biking and road cycling, skiing and snowboarding, rafting and kayaking, rock climbing, skeet and pistol events.
Images by Kent McCracken - Reno Sports Photographer
I love being in the action, on the field, in the gym, stadium, course, or track, on the mountain, in the desert, and by horseback. I grew up caring for and riding horses.
Sports photography is a challenging and dynamic discipline. You have to be focused and doggedly on point. You need to know your sport and be able to anticipate where the action is, and be there! You’ve got to bring you’re a-game every day or you’re missing the action!
Image by Kent McCracken - Reno Sports Photographer
I find shooting youth sports more challenging than professional sports.
It’s one thing being on assignment covering a game for a magazine, sports outlet or organization, where you have the entire game to produce a quota of quality shots for publication.
It’s an entirely different game shooting youth sports for retail sale to parents. The latter is a lot more work!
Parents buy great pictures of their kids; they don’t buy OK pictures of their kids.
Image by Kent McCracken - Reno Sports Photographer
Shooting a field of players and capturing each player in action is plain tough. Even with more than one photographer on the field at the same time requires constant coordination covering each player to capture great shots.
As a Reno Sports Photographer shooting youth sports, I take about two thousand images per game. Covering two teams with roughly fifteen kids each equal sixty-five images per player. Of course this varies by sport, league and team size.
Image by Kent McCracken - Reno Sports Photographer
Typically, about fifty percent of each players images are worthy, if your good, and meet the ‘that’s amazing’ category. The other fifty percent fall into the ‘OK’ category and are mostly deleted, ultimately providing about thirty pictures per kid for potential sale to parents, which, if you have not yet grasped, creates a moderately profitable and much appreciated industry in the youth sports photography business.
Families who buy photographs are amazed and so happy to possess professional quality images of their kids playing and competing in their favorite games.
This is the Art of Youth Sports Photography. As a Reno Sports Photographer I capture and deliver quality, one of a kind, photographs for athletes and families.
Image by Kent McCracken - Reno Sports Photographer
Appreciation for what one does goes a long way in meeting personal gratification in a job.
I see, hear and feel this gratification from parents all the time as a youth sports photographer. This is the reason I enjoy shooting youth sports vs professional and amateur sports. The appreciation for what one does as a youth sports photographer is openly apparent.
Watching kids get excited over their pictures is a worthy cause, supporting personal and professional needs in producing something revered by ones’ subjects. As a professional sport photographer this sort of appreciation and validation is much less common.
Shooting sports is a true challenge. Most don’t realize the amount of commitment, concentration, knowledge, timing, skill, and equipment required of a Reno sports photographer.
I love the challenge and rewards and enjoy shooting professional and youth sports immensely. A pursuit I continue to manage in my seasonal work schedule. Contact me to discuss or book.
Thank you for reading.
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