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Yaryman
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With their team photo just a couple weeks away, figured it was time to put together the time lapse
I made last year of the Oakland A's team photo. All two plus hours is shown in 95 seconds.

That's fellow FM'er Scott Mosher in the red helping me out and mugging for some of the photos.

" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Oakland A's 2013 Team photo time lapse.


http://ksimonian.com/A/2013-Team-Picture.jpg



Jul 28, 2014 at 03:11 PM
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Mangin would've just instagrammed it.

Very entertaining. Thanks for sharing.



Jul 28, 2014 at 03:51 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · 2 hours setup - 1 minute shooting - Oakland A's team photo


Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

What do you use for risers? I might be in need or some for some future team shoots.



Jul 28, 2014 at 04:35 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · 2 hours setup - 1 minute shooting - Oakland A's team photo


I am the Sacramento River Cats (A's AAA farm team) photographer. We did our photo pre-season... Do you do two photos?

It looks like your risers are 18" x 3 rows, How wide was your set up?

On a funny note, our grounds keeper would not let us sit the risers directly on the grass, we had some 12x12 plywood pieces on the grass. I used GPS's 12"x 3 rows, around 20' long for my photo. Some of the same players! PM me if you need help on your photo

Ralph



Jul 28, 2014 at 11:03 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · 2 hours setup - 1 minute shooting - Oakland A's team photo


Geoffrey, the risers were custom made. The risers in this photo were 20' wide.

Ralph, I only do the team photo at the end of the season. I don't believe the A's do another.
I do know that sometimes changes are made to the photo after it's been taken.
Over the years several times a ball boy or other person takes the spot of a player to later be replaced by with a head swap.

As for putting the risers on the grass, it's no problem. They do no damage.
Some years I've taken the photo after the Raiders have played a pre-season football game, and the outfield grass is trashed as the temp bleachers sit on the outfield grass.

The biggest problem with setting up is some years there is batting practice while I set up. ( visiting team )
I just set up the risers during the batting practice, and the put up the lights once it's done.

Here was my 15 minutes of fame as the SF Chronicle/SF Gate did a story about me taking the team photos.

http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Team-picture-day-in-the-big-leagues-3815650.php#photo-3367805



Jul 29, 2014 at 11:41 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · 2 hours setup - 1 minute shooting - Oakland A's team photo


Where can you get the risers at


Jul 29, 2014 at 11:58 AM
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You can get the risers at:

www.gpsrisers.com

They also have the aluminum benches available.



Jul 29, 2014 at 12:24 PM
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thanks for posting! great to see what goes into a shot like that.


Jul 29, 2014 at 05:14 PM
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The tall risers = injury waiting to happen!


Jul 29, 2014 at 11:10 PM
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Very nice shot and great making of clip. Is that a Norman power pack i see in the clip ? Haven't seen one of those in a while. My partner still has one tucked away in his basement somewhere :-)

Thanks for sharing.



Jul 30, 2014 at 11:25 PM
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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · 2 hours setup - 1 minute shooting - Oakland A's team photo


Very cool. Thanks for sharing!


Jul 31, 2014 at 07:44 AM
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That's maybe the most boring team photo I've ever seen. I simply don't understand why this is what gets used by the top teams in the world.

The lighting is extremely basic and so is the camera work. There's nothing creative about this photo.

Having said that, if that's what they wanted (which sometimes.. it is!) then you nailed it.



Jul 31, 2014 at 03:27 PM
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Thanks for sharing.


Jul 31, 2014 at 11:01 PM
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JesseShotland wrote:
That's maybe the most boring team photo I've ever seen. I simply don't understand why this is what gets used by the top teams in the world.

The lighting is extremely basic and so is the camera work. There's nothing creative about this photo.

Having said that, if that's what they wanted (which sometimes.. it is!) then you nailed it.


Umm, thats what the team wanted, thats why they got it....



Aug 01, 2014 at 10:09 AM
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Scott Mosher wrote:
Umm, thats what the team wanted, thats why they got it....


Ok, then it's settled. You guys did a great job..!



Aug 01, 2014 at 11:23 AM
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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · 2 hours setup - 1 minute shooting - Oakland A's team photo


love the newspaper article - picture is great also


Aug 01, 2014 at 11:34 AM
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JesseShotland wrote:
That's maybe the most boring team photo I've ever seen. I simply don't understand why this is what gets used by the top teams in the world.

The lighting is extremely basic and so is the camera work. There's nothing creative about this photo.

Having said that, if that's what they wanted (which sometimes.. it is!) then you nailed it.


I'm always open to new ideas and techniques. How could I improve the lighting and camera work?

Just remember the constraints the photo is taken under.

1. The teams sets the time of day for the photo.
2. The team spends more time stretching after the photo then they do taking the photo. ( usually 10 minutes for the entire team photo process )
3. A list of players who will be in the photo is provided. The number of players changes right up until I press the shutter.
4. The lighting must be even across an area 20 feet wide and 8 feet deep. ( I usually am within .3 stop for the entire photo )
5. Most of the players are 20 something millionaires who don't hear the word no very often. ( like the article said, "herding cats" )
6. As the players are wearing baseball hats, the light must be under/even the lens, otherwise you get really bad shadows.
7. The lighting can't be too exotic as players heads are sometimes swapped out with photos taken weeks or months earlier in different lighting setups.
8. The lighting can't be too difficult as it sometimes has to be set up after live batting practice. ( the bleachers can and have been set up during batting practice )

Thanks ahead of time.



Aug 01, 2014 at 01:26 PM
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Considering your requirements (8 listed above), I think you did a very good job. I would be proud of that work had it been mine with those constraints. Heck, I would have been proud of that without those constraints. The only thing you could do differently is some kind of green screen and just shoot them individually. I am guessing the guys in white and polos are not players and you could shoot them as you did and just photoshop the players in.

And while the tall risers may work for you, they scare the heck out of me for shooting youth sports, which is one reason I've gone to photoshoping some of the higher rows of players in my big team sports photos.

Thanks for sharing the behind the scenes work. Oh, and next year, give that smaller guy in the dead center a couple of phone books to stand on.



Aug 01, 2014 at 02:31 PM
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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · 2 hours setup - 1 minute shooting - Oakland A's team photo


Have you practiced turning Red Sox hats into A's hats?

Thanks for sharing this.



Aug 02, 2014 at 11:14 AM
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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · 2 hours setup - 1 minute shooting - Oakland A's team photo


That was awesome. Thanks for sharing. As well as all the info shared of what's involved and the requirements.
I'll never be taking team photos. .



Aug 02, 2014 at 04:37 PM
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