Sports Photography + Portrait Photography = Sportrait Photography

Senior Portrait Photography by Vincent Rush of Cincinnati Sports Photography

Senior Portrait Photography by Sports Photographer Vincent Rush

Senior Portrait Photography by Ohio Sports Photographer Vincent Rush

Just a few examples of what I refer to as "Sport-Rait" photography. 

As a result of shooting a lot of sports action photography, I am often asked if I can do Senior Portraits.

It's not my niche, but I certainly don't mind doing it. This was a great subject and a result of a simple action photo I took a few years ago of Monroe High School pitcher Jake Little. 

Two years later, his Mom would contact me about shooting his Senior portraits.

Posted by Monroe Ohio photographer Vincent Rush, Cincinnati Sports Photography and Dayton Sports Photography of Monroe Ohio. Vince Rush can be contacted by phone at (877) 858-6295 or by email at vrush@rushintl.com or visit http://CincinnatiSportsPhotography.com

Faces in the Crowd

 By Ohio Sports Photographer, Vincent Rush

Are you shooting sports photography to earn a secondary income, or are you shooting sports photography because it’s a hobby that you have no intention of ever expanding into a business?

If you are doing it to earn an income, and are like most aspiring sports photographers, you shoot a Friday night or Saturday football game and capture hundreds of action shots and run home to your computer and upload your favorites to a website such as Smug Mug www.smugmug.com and then sit back and hope the cash starts coming in.

You will also notice that there are several other photographers at your local events, with the same intentions.

I’ve always said, live by the philosophy of “Observe the masses and do the opposite”

One of your “hidden treasures” in any high school event is the kids in the crowd.

I consistently sell more 5x7’s and 4x6 prints form my journeys up into the stands that the actual game photos, simply because…NO ONE ELSE DOES!

There is a secret though, don’t just fire off snap shots that anyone with an I-Phone can capture. Be a little creative and always take a second to make sure you don’t embarrass anyone kid or post up some idiot that is flipping the finger in the background.

Oh. Yeah…I’ve saw worse than that in the background of some of my photos! Examine them carefully. There’s an idiot in every crowd.

I particularly take care to remove bad acne in a shot like that. I do not want a kid with a developing self image to be made fun of by his peers so I am very meticulous in taking care of that detail before I post a picture.

If you don’t want to sell the pics, but still want the efforts to produce fruit, post them on a local kids or schools Facebook page.

Kids will tag themselves and share the photos, garnering you some free “Brand Exposure”.

 
Posted by Monroe Ohio photographer Vincent Rush, Cincinnati Sports Photography and Dayton Sports Photography of Monroe Ohio. Vince Rush can be contacted by phone at (877) 858-6295 or by email at vrush@rushintl.com or visit http://CincinnatiSportsPhotography.com