Summer Pics: SU Sportz

This past summer I had the privilege of taking photos for SU Sportz. SU Sportz is an organization that is all about building relationships with young people, through sports. They have a few different ways of doing this, through summer camps, partnering with churches and Real Deal days (professional sports events).

I approached SU at the beginning of the summer asking if they wanted any photography work done, that they could then use in their promotional materials. There was some back and forth discussions, and they agreed, and also wanted me to shoot some video footage. Throughout the summer I attended (took pictures) at some of their camps, Real Deal days, and other events.

Inspired By Chase Jarvis

One of my favourite photographers is a man named Chase Jarvis. He is extremely talented, and so creative. He has been using his blog, videos, tweets, meetups, etc. to help grow and unify the photography and creative community. Recently, I tried to recreate one of his pictures. A picture he took for Reebok, a basketball ad. Instead of doing basketball, I chose to shoot hockey. I grew up Canada, so hockey has pretty much always been a part of my life. I played it for a long time and have been shooting it a lot as well. I haven't tried any sort of set up/editorial/commercial type photos for hockey, so this was a first. I brought out a couple of my friends, two are in the shot, one is holding a flashstand with a Canon 430ex, and umbrella, above the two players, and another friend is there for support ;)

Here is the photo that Mr. Jarvis took, that I based mine off of.

And here is my photo:

As you can see, my lighting isn't exactly that same, but still I thought I did a pretty good job.

Thanks for checking it out!