New Discovery

I know what you’re thinking, what’s with the photo?  This has nothing to do with fashion.  I’ll explain. I’m still explaining it to myself even.  The past three months have been really amazing.  I’m back in school, actually at school and working in studio.  I’ve been lucky enough to find models to take to school with me during our free shooting sessions on Sundays to practice lighting and help with my ideas for my fashion portfolio.

One of the classes I took was sports photography.  It was never a class I thought I’d take because I don’t have any interest in sports photography but I thought I’d learn a lot about lighting.  Our first assignment was very technical, we were to photograph a water droplet. I must have practiced 7 days in a row before figuring out how to freeze the water droplet. It was very fun.

We were then ready to move on to people.  We shot dancers.  Freezing motion and showing motion using shutter drag.  I was very happy with this shoot and thought I had taken the best photos of my life.  As the course went on, I did shoots I never thought I’d be interested in or enjoy.  We shot soccer in the rain, skateboarding and mountain biking.  By my last class, I started thinking maybe I’m meant be be a sports photographer.  I absolutely loved every shoot and tried to be as creative as possible in our limited time (classes are only 3 hours long).  I’ve never learned so much and have had such an interest in something as strongly as this.  Don’t get me wrong I still love fashion and I still want to do my final project as planned which is a fashion portfolio with a wacky twist.  But living in Vancouver during a pandemic, it’ll be extremely challenging to find work as a fashion photographer.  But sports are everywhere.  I could do sports mainly and fashion editorials on the side.

I’m still in shock over it all.  But I’m starting to believe sports photography may just be my calling.  I’ll be asking everyone I know that are into sports and have a sports team if I can practice my photography with them.  I’ve asked my gym and sent them a proposal.  I’m hoping to get some kickboxing shots.

I’ll be doing another soccer shoot on Sunday.  I can’t wait.  The first soccer shoot I did we were to tell a story.  I drew a complete blank and just started shooting hoping something would come to me.  I ended up doing a story on the soccer ball.  It was pretty weak.  My classmates had way better stories.  I had amazing shots, but my story needed help.  I’m going to do another story and hopefully do a better job.

I’ll be the best Sports Fashion Photography I can be 🙂