Created 17-Feb-24
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One of the main reasons I take race photos is to get media coverage for racers, the sport of alpine racing, and the ski club. So the first priority after a race is to submit, within the applicable deadline, photos and captions to the Anchorage Daily News, primarily, and sometimes to the Juneau Empire and to Ski Racing.
Here are the nine images submitted today for the U12/U14 tech races. There were several images of some racers, to give the ADN compositional choices. And by now, most non-racers don't want to see the usual "gate-crush" shots. So one goal is to give the Sports staff a variety of choices. Thus, I gave the ADN three different shots of Reilly Cooper and three different shots of Mia Huey.
Why are some racers depicted? Deadlines prevent leisurely review of thousands of images. (17,000 Friday; 12,000 Saturday.)
I work with the results, usually USSS Dashboard until official results are available, and try to quickly find the best shots of the top three racers in class. (Such as Cooper and Huey in this series.) "Best" means different things to different people. I strive for high quality images technically, and also images that make racing interesting for even casual readers. To some extent, choices have to be made that are difficult. Here are examples: a heroic run that ends in a DQ or DNF is Impossible to explain in a short caption); a great single run that is paired with an incomplete or even just a slower run; a DQ on the first run and a "winning" (top time) second run for a qualifier (impossible to explain to Outsiders).
And sometimes a racer who normally finishes off the podium breaks through with a great race. Hard, but not always impossible, to explain. (Hint for everyone not always finishing on the podium: keep striving.) The sport is cruel. A very strong racer may simply have a bad race, or a bad series, and so on. You have our sympathy. But explaining it to the larger audience is too challenging. The news cycle is even crueler than ski racing.
The pressure to get images to the ADN delays and distracts from getting the race galleries uploaded. And just in case anyone gets impatient for the race galleries, it takes hours of selecting and processing to select, edit, and upload suitable gallery photos.
So, for the time being enjoy these nine images. The race galleries will eventually be uploaded.
And keep in mind the club needs to review its general publicity and media functions, starting with finding a race photographer for next season. Know any good photographers willing to step up?
Since posting the first nine images, I added four more, from the U16+ races. These are the four I sent the ADN on Monday, 2/19, with captions and a plea for more coverage online.
The last four show Avery Reger, Corbin Wilson, Ava Huey, and Henry Nordstrom
Here are the nine images submitted today for the U12/U14 tech races. There were several images of some racers, to give the ADN compositional choices. And by now, most non-racers don't want to see the usual "gate-crush" shots. So one goal is to give the Sports staff a variety of choices. Thus, I gave the ADN three different shots of Reilly Cooper and three different shots of Mia Huey.
Why are some racers depicted? Deadlines prevent leisurely review of thousands of images. (17,000 Friday; 12,000 Saturday.)
I work with the results, usually USSS Dashboard until official results are available, and try to quickly find the best shots of the top three racers in class. (Such as Cooper and Huey in this series.) "Best" means different things to different people. I strive for high quality images technically, and also images that make racing interesting for even casual readers. To some extent, choices have to be made that are difficult. Here are examples: a heroic run that ends in a DQ or DNF is Impossible to explain in a short caption); a great single run that is paired with an incomplete or even just a slower run; a DQ on the first run and a "winning" (top time) second run for a qualifier (impossible to explain to Outsiders).
And sometimes a racer who normally finishes off the podium breaks through with a great race. Hard, but not always impossible, to explain. (Hint for everyone not always finishing on the podium: keep striving.) The sport is cruel. A very strong racer may simply have a bad race, or a bad series, and so on. You have our sympathy. But explaining it to the larger audience is too challenging. The news cycle is even crueler than ski racing.
The pressure to get images to the ADN delays and distracts from getting the race galleries uploaded. And just in case anyone gets impatient for the race galleries, it takes hours of selecting and processing to select, edit, and upload suitable gallery photos.
So, for the time being enjoy these nine images. The race galleries will eventually be uploaded.
And keep in mind the club needs to review its general publicity and media functions, starting with finding a race photographer for next season. Know any good photographers willing to step up?
Since posting the first nine images, I added four more, from the U16+ races. These are the four I sent the ADN on Monday, 2/19, with captions and a plea for more coverage online.
The last four show Avery Reger, Corbin Wilson, Ava Huey, and Henry Nordstrom
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