Five student sports photographers work together to get to shoot all the major sporting events at the high school. Seniors Thomas Jorgensen and Addy Rock, junior Mack Morrow, sophomore Owen Myers and freshman Cody Tran take photos. These students all work on editing and improving the overall quality of photos by doing what they love.
Photographers are inspired to continue photography because of the final results and seeing improvements in their work. They all love what they do and all of the hard work they put into photography makes them never want to stop.
“Once you see progress you just want to keep getting better,” Tran explained.
All photographers have different connections with each other if directly or indirectly. They all work together in many different ways, which include helping each other improve, comparing photos and motivating one another.
“Thomas really helped me to get into the actual photography business of things and we work together quite a bit,” Morrow said.
All of the photographers shoot a variety of different sports. Together, they cover most of the sports and some of them also shoot events outside of the school or something not sports-related.
Jorgensen shoots football, basketball, lacrosse, commercials and weddings. Rock shoots baseball and is a photographer for the newspaper and yearbook. Morrow shoots hockey, football and lacrosse. Myers shoots basketball and hockey. Tran shoots gymnastics, football, soccer, hockey and volleyball.
They all have different outlooks on the negatives of photography, but they all agree the positives outweigh them. There are always negatives as there are for everything, but these students emphasize how they love what they do and there are way too many positives to let the negatives affect them.
Photography can be very time-consuming and “It is very mentally draining at times, “Morrow said.” But it creates a lot of character.”
These photographers all shoot different amounts of photography a week especially depending on which sports are in season. It also differs to how much they each spend actually shooting and then editing the photos and how that is split up.
Jorgensen emphasizes how he shoots around 10 hours a week split 20/80 with shooting and editing, while Morrow shoots around 20 hours a week split 50/50.
All these photographers started in different ways, some were inspired by each other to join and others just picked up a camera and the passion for taking pictures just came to them. Even Though all of these photographers have different paths they all choose to do the same thing.
“I was kind of messing around filming stuff in the backyard and at Afton and just started editing it,” Jorgensen explained.
“My favorite part about photography is seeing the final product. There are new ways to be creative with it every time and it never gets boring, you can always improve,” Jorgensen emphasized.
