Nevada School & Sport Photography

Last night we went to photograph the Reno Continental and the Reno National Little League all-stars.  It is always a crunch to get these teams photographed and the process the images so we can send them off to the tournament host to be included in their post season program.  Josh took on the Reno National teams as I went over to the Reno Continental fields.  We have the Reno American league on Monday and then Sparks Fastpitch and Spanish Springs Cal Ripken later next week.  We are looking forward to wrapping up the all-star shoots as we then get a little break in July before the fall season begins.

During our down time from the sports leagues, we will be photographing some high school seniors and taking some much needed R&R.  I was hoping to hit the rock and bikes hard this summer, but with a recent shoulder surgery, I’m pretty much out of commission for the summer months.  I’m gradually getting back to some activities, but my main fix this summer will be just plain old camping.

We will see you next season if not sooner.

Scott

Every year we provide the Reno Ballers (Boys and Girls Club) with team composite photos for their annual extravaganza.  They auction them off to raise money for their program and each year we’ve been able to provide them with some amazing (if I don’t say so myself) prints.  This year we have once again put together an incredible composite for their team photos.  Each year we try to come up with a different idea and give their team photos that dark edgy feeling.  For 2010 we went downtown and shot an alleyway in front of the new Knitting Factory.  After cutting out each kid individually from a studio shot, we composed them onto our alley scene.  If you notice you will see Yoda in the window in the upper right corner of the alley, wasn’t planned just happened and we didn’t even notice it until we were finalizing the image.  We thought that came out kind of cool with him in there.  We did obviously add the basketball player on the building silhouetted against the moon, which was added as well.  After pumping up the contrast and the vibrancy of the alley, we finally added some mystical smoke to add to the flair of the dark alley theme.  All in all we think this years composite came out great, and we look forward to coming up with a new idea for next year.

As we have slowed down now for sports portraits, we have begun to get busy with some senior portraits.  I will get some session shots posted soon with some video shows we have captured. 

Until next time.

Scott

On Saturday we had another busy day.  Josh was out at Reno Continental shooting their team and individual portraits while myself, John, and Mike shot the Sparks Recreation Just For Kicks soccer camp (which is always like herding cats), then moved over to Jamaica Park and photographed the Reno Fastpitch Softball league.  We were blessed with great weather and I think I even got a little sun burned.  We unveiled a new ordering system for the Reno Fastpitch league and we have had great feedback so far.  We decided to go without order forms or pre-payment and decided to post all images online and have the customers view their daughters photos and then purchase all online.  We are excited about this new system and hope it goes well.

In addition to these shoots we also photographed a Reed HighSchool senior on Thursday.  We are in the process of editing her images so we don’t have any to post yet.  We do have a video slideshow of our photoshoot with Kevin from a couple of weeks ago that I have included here though.  We are always excited about the senior photo sessions and look forward to each one.

If you have any questions please contact us.

Thanks, Scott

Saturday we photographed the High Desert Little League and the Desert Valley Girls Softball Association, both from Fernley.  We had a great day and the weather was impeccable.  As is normally true the shoot went off without a hitch, although we do occasionally have problems, this one was as perfect as it gets with weather and timing.  It is always a treat to shoot out in Fernley, with such a tight knit community the parents and kids are always a pleasure to work with and get involved with the leagues.  We have a busy week ahead of us, not only processing the leagues from Saturday, but we also have shoots lined up for this week.  Tomorrow we photograph the Sparks Recreation Blastball then on Saturday we have the Sparks Recreation Just for Kicks Soccer camp, the Reno Continental Little League, and the Reno Fastpitch Softball League.  We also have a senior coming in later this week to get her senior portraits in our studio. 

It is such a nice time of year in Reno, although we can get some nasty winter weather still, for the most part though, the spring weather is a nice mix and a good transition into the hot summer (Which I could personally do without).  The road biking and mountain biking has been excellent so far, and we are looking forward to some great hiking and backpacking this late spring and summer.  Though I’m still not done with skiing, most of the resorts have started to shut down, but the benefit of having a Squaw Valley pass is that they will be open for another month still, so I’m hoping to get some great spring turns in with the family.

We will see you at the ballpark.

Scott