Faux Macho

(Ned Mulka/The Daily Illini)

Here are some sports portraits from the past month.

I’d call the second one a surprise portrait. While I was shooting the first soccer portrait, the sports information director for cross country spotted me and informed me that there was a cross country portrait schedule for that day but no one from the DI could shoot it. Anyways, the location of the team’s practice changed and I was in the right place at the right time (if that’s possible because XC portraits might be the most difficult sport to take a portrait of and shooting one on zero notice isn’t pleasant).

We don’t have a whole lot of time to create these, I’d say five, ten minutes max. It’s a great balance between trying to get the best photo while not taking their time away from practice or angering the sports information director responsible for the athletes.