Faces In The Crowd

One of the things I always love to shoot, is what other photographers never do.

There are plenty of sideline shooters looking for the "Immaculate Reception" picture. I'll admit, I am always looking for it to. But being a good photographer is also about being versatile and creative.

In today's High School culture of school spirit, there are some colorful face painting and costume selections in the student sections.

One of the tings I always take time to do is to try to create flattering pictures of the kids. If I see a kid in the picture with bad acne, I will clean it up before I post it. If I see someone with teeth that are not very white, I will touch them up. I always try to be careful and remember how those things affected my self esteem when I was that age.

You also have to double check your images to make sure no one in the background is giving you a "one fingered salute" or showing something they shouldn't. (Yes that has happened!)

I like to use "Selective Color" to bring my subjects to light and blend out the back ground of random fans.

Lets face it, parents or kids, are more likely to buy their pictures, if they look good in those pictures.

This particular photograph is from the Monroe Hornet student section in Monroe, Ohio during a Friday night contest.

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Great American Ball Park

Home of the Cincinnati Reds

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Hornet Country

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Taking it to the House!

Even today, this photo of Monroe Wee Hornet Running Back, Davis Carpenter, who was in 3rd grade at the time, remains one of my all time favorite sports photographs.

This is an example of what I always teach, when I say "Get at eye level with your subject. See it from the players perspective.

I also think that this sports image, may have been about the 600th I shot of that game. It was also among the last that I captured on that Saturday.

It ended up being published in the 2008 edition of Capture Cincinnati.

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Stuffed

Sometimes a little selective color effect goes a long way to add drama to a picture.

While shooting for a client at a Monroe Hornets home high school football game against Meadowdale, I caught one of my subjects delivering a "slobber knocker" of a hit on an opposing RB.

I'm a big believer in ALWAYS making the home team look good. I see too many "photo dumps" into galleries that have multiple pictures of the home team dropping the ball, getting run over by the opposition or just plain looking awkward.

My sports photography rule of thumb; If you wouldn't be proud to post it on your own wall at home, what makes you think a parent is going to want to buy it and post it on theirs?

For example, I was browsing another photographers page today of a recent game. Their were 6 pages of images, 5 really good shots, (By good shots, I mean, I would have been proud to have shot them) and 100 plus images that were either out of focus, off target or left the viewer wondering, "What the heck was going on in this picture?"

Always make the player or home team you're shooting, look like pros. Always make sure your picture tells a story. Every camera has 1/1000 to 1/1600th of a second shutter speed. Don't fall in love with every image you capture. In a typical football game, I will shoot 700-1200 images yet only keep 20-60 of them.

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Opposite Field

Here is a nice shot of my son, Zachary Rush, during a Fall League Baseball game in the Lakota Youth Sports Organization in West Chester, Ohio.

Zach hit a nice fly ball that landed inside the left field line for a double.

One of the secrets to great youth sports photography. is shooting just below eye level. Shooting at this angle, not only makes the player look slightly more majestic, but it also lets the viewer see things from the players perspective.

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Hornet Pride

Monroe high school 1st year head coach, Brett Stubbs, gives an inspirational heart felt speech to the Monroe Hornet Seniors before they take the field in Stubbs first game as the leader of the Hornet Football Team on August 27th, 2010

I used a little selective color technique on this shot to add some pop to the locker room setting and bring some drama to the picture.

The Hornet's soundly defeated Meadowdale high school on this night, 17-6.

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Self Sportrait

I had the opportunity to be on the opposite end of the lens the other night in Chicago at Efflin Stadium, home of the Kane County Cougars, the Single A affiliate of MLB's Oakland A's

I've been blessed to carve out a nice career in Amway since 1991 and became an Emerald about 10 years ago. I've also been fortunate enough to be on the team of Amway Double Diamond, Joe Markiewicz. As a result of that affiliation, we have had the opportunity to do many cool events, that we would have never even come close to doing in the normal hum drum 9-5 life as an employee.

We began renting out Nashville's Greer Stadium 10 years ago and suiting up to play, not softball, but actual baseball, complete with pitchers, catchers and umpires.

Along the way I've had the experience of hitting 6 home runs, catching a few 9 inning games and living out a dream.

I've also rented out University of Cincinnati's Marge Schott stadium a few times for my local team in Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Louisville.

I had a good friend of mine shoot this one so that I could do a little selective color work on myself.

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Freedom Fighter Baseball

My son, 12 year old Zachary Rush in his first Freedom Fighter baseball game at Marge Schott Stadium, on the campus of the University of Cincinnati.

I rent the stadium out each year for a baseball tournament between a group of my Amway and LTD business partners from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana

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Sunset Samurai

An example of what I like to call a "Sportrait"

Silhouette photography of Karate Champion Amanda Joiner shot at 9:15 in the evening, on a cemetery hill while standing on the roof of my new Jeep Liberty

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Stephen Strasburg

Wahington Nationals rookie pitcher, Stephen Strasburg pitching for the first time against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 21st, 2010.

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Swim Meet in Monroe

Sports photograph from Monroe, Ohio Swim Club.

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Monroe Ohio, Light Up the Sky

Fireworks photo from the annual Light Up the Sky, 4th of July celebration in beautiful Monroe, Ohio

Phot by Cincinnati Photographer Vincent Rush

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