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Winter sports portraits – 2010

Portraits are so hit or miss for me. Sometimes I can walk away from a shoot more pumped than a documentary assignment. Others, I sweat bullets and get anxious before I am even done shooting. Thankfully, this season’s crop of portraits was mostly anxiety free.

Posted 29 March 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Personal § Sports ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

Busy weekend

Hinckley-Big Rock won two very close games to win their second class 1A state championship. My weekend began Friday morning with a road trip with two writers from the Daily Chronicle heading down to Bloomington, Ill., to cover three state tournament games: 2 basketball, 1 wrestling.
The first day was the semi-final basketball game for H-BR. [...]

Posted 28 February 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Sports ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Girls basketball championships this weekend

For a second time in a row, the Hinckley-Big Rock girls basketball team is going to the state championships in Bloomington, Ill. Last year I followed the girls as they brought back their high school’s first ever state championship… in anything.
H-BR’s Maxzine Rossler does a radio interview after her team won the super-sectional game in [...]

Posted 26 February 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Sports ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Light painting basketball portraits

For this year’s high school basketball preview I decided to make a portrait series with light painting. It’s a gimmick I can only use once in a long time, but I figured I’d get it out of the way earlier. Light painting involves a long shutter (in this case around 10 seconds), and me running [...]

Posted 06 January 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Sports § portrait ‡ Comments (15) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Smile

Only a few more games until the end of the high school baseball season. I can’t say I am excited for the end, but I am looking forward to shooting the portraits for the players of the year for each sport in the theme I cooked up a few weeks ago.

Posted 29 May 2009 † Beck Diefenbach § Sports ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , , , ,