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2010 Forsyth County Youth Football

admin — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:37:56 +0000

Dennis Murray Photography is again photographing the athletes of the Forsyth County Youth Football Association via a relationship with Midway Park.

All Photography this year will be via a “Request” basis only. Please see the full details of our 2010 Action Photography program.

All galleries are on sale for the first 10 days after posted. Sales will renew each time a team is photographed.

The best value in receiving your photographs is are our Digital Image Collections. Starting at $70 for twenty digital images, you can receive high resolution image files that can be reprinted or used for personal use.

For assistance in selecting your photographs, or placing your order, please contact Dennis Murray.

2010 Forsyth County Youth Football Action Photography

Nathan’s Portrait Session

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:09:42 +0000

I had these under embargo as it was for a Christmas surprise – but never brought them to the blog! Nathan was a first grade football player for the Lanier Bowl winning Midway Park Wolverines team. Nathan played both ways during the season and some of his action photos also appeared in the blog.

With the weather we had in early December, we scheduled studio time instead of a location session. The portraits were part of a photo book that I put together for Nathan’s Dad as a Christmas surprise.

Getting Sideways

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:00:19 +0000

So much time in sports is spent photographing subjects vertically. There’s good reason for it – the subjects in sports spend a lot of time running, and in some sports are using their feet. In football, however, there’s a lot of action that happens only from the waist up – so in my mind it makes great sense turn the camera back to horizontal and shoot very tight on the upper bodies of players on opposite sides of the ball.

In this case, the wider view (horizontally) allowed me to see the defender trying to wrap up the ball carrier – where as a vertical of this shot, from the same position on the field would have lost the contact except for part of either.

Evasive Action

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:42:07 +0000

I thought this sequence of Sharon Springs War Eagles runner being pursued by a Midway Wolverines tackler had several great things working for it:

Tight framing
Great faces on the ball carrier
A great backlight and rim light on the helmets

You Make the Call

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:35:52 +0000

There’s no replay in Youth Football obviously – but if this was a play in the College or Pro ranks it surely would have come under review.

The ball carrier (white jersey) is apparently stripped of the ball near the goal line.

Detail of the hands and ball:

Another detail from the above frame – looks like the ball has changed hands:

The defense was awarded possession of the ball.