Back to Schooling

23Dec09

Since I have had nothing to shoot that is worth posting since I left school, I decided that I’d post some photos my dad took of me (using my camera) schooling my horse over the NSA hurdles yesterday in Camden.

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Two Links, a Caption Oops and a High Five

17Dec09

Since I have almost nothing new to show you, Ill post some links you need to check out…and a caption a photo editor and photographer need to edit.

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Tags: Boston Globe Big Picture, Caption Fail, Days with my Father, Phillip Toledano, USAToday

Centre Swim Team Calendar

15Dec09

Butterfly Team: Nikon D300, 1/125, F4.5, ISO1000, SB800 Strobe from right

Back in september, a few members of the team thought it would be fun to put together a calendar of our 2009-2010 Centre swim/dive team. We had a chance to finally start shooting photos for it over our Christmas break training part I this past week. Here are some of my favorites. EXIF data is below each. Thanks to Seth Boone for his help as my impromptu lighting assistant.

Photos from our Christmas break training part II, from St. Petersburg Florida, will be coming after the new year. Until then, have a happy holidays!

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Tags: Calenday, Centre Swimming and Diving, Swim Team

Training Race Horses

27Nov09

Former Champion Steeplechase jockey, Arch Kingsley Jr, trains thoroughbred race horses out of Camden South Carolina for a living. I have had the pleasure of knowing Arch since 2002 or 2003 when he and my dad chatted after a race they both attended. That chat turned into a friendship between them and I soon began traveling south almost every weekend to gallop his horses for him. In return for my “free labor”, he taught me as much as he could about horse racing, riding race horses and the art of racing. I have been going down to gallop for him going on 5 years now.

The photos below were done as a personal favor to Arch. I am more or less indebted to him for what he has taught me…and for the 28 race rides and the 8 winners he has named me as jockey for. Thanks for everything Arch. Cheers to many more years of success for both of us in racing.

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Tags: Arch Kingsley Jr, Camden SC, Horse racing, Jamey Price Photographer, Race Horses

Faces of Swimming: A Photo Essay

23Nov09

I saw on sportsshooter last week, I don’t even remember the photographer’s name, a photo essay that I found very cool and unique. What the photographer had done is sat at the finish line of a cross country race, and taken very shallow depth of field (probably with an 85mm F1.8 lens) photos of runners as they crossed the finish line. I was inspired, as both a photographer and as a former cross country runner, by how powerful the photos were. Some really strange faces, but underlying it all, I was impressed with how incredibly real and emotional they were.

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Tags: Emotion, Faces of Swimming, Jamey Price Photographer, Swimming

WKU Invitational Swim meet

23Nov09

Each february, our swim season comes to a grueling but fun filled end at the SCAC Division III Conference championships. It is a three day prelims/finals format swim meet. Each team uses most of their season to train for this meet; we shave our legs and arms, and back off the practice yardage (tapering) all in the goal of dropping huge amounts of time in our events.

…But a three day swim meet is very physically taxing on a swimmer’s body. By the final day,  your muscles freeze up and cramp and you are left swimming on the reserves you built up over the season. So to prepare for our conference championship in february, Centre was invited by Western Kentucky University for their annual invitational. WKU’s invite is a prelims/finals format meet that runs over three days…just like conference. So we used this opportunity as a dry run for our February championship.

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Tags: Centre College, Diviion III swimming, Division I swimming, Marshal University, Missouri Science and Technology, Swimming and Diving, University of the Cumberlands, Western Kentucky University Invitational, WKU

Photo Lesson 3: 7 Tips for Shooting Sports

15Nov09

Shooting sports on a consistent basis gets repetitive and it can often show in your work leaving you an unhappy shooter with few images that really speak about the sport you shot. Breaking your own mold and leaving your comfort zone can often be the best thing for a photographer to do to. So in that light, try to follow a few of these guidelines and you’ll be on your way to taking better photos of the action as well as the moments that portray the emotion of the athletes.

1) Get a new perspective. Nothing is more boring then a shot taken from eye level. Get down low. Get high. Get to the level the athlete is at. Put your photo’s viewer in the moment. Lie on the ground in the rain and mud if you have to! I was once told by the Director of Photography at the Charlotte Observer newspaper that “photography is a contact sport. If you don’t come home dirty, bruised, sore and tired…you have not done your job.” I live by this quote and it is truly one of my favorites.

2) Anticipate the moments. This goes way beyond sports photography to photography in general and photojournalism in particular. If you know that the ball has just been intercepted by the cornerback, common sense says to shoot the cornerback running down the sideline with the ball, but odds are the quarterback who missed the throw is going to show some pretty intense emotion. Place yourself in the best position to anticipate the moments where an athlete can vent their frustration or show their excitement, and then hammer the shutter.

The end of a 24 hour bike race...of course people are going to be excited it was over! And I just waited for someone to show that excitement. ANTICIPATE!

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Tags: 7 tips for better sports photos, action, better, Digital Photography School, Jamey Price, moments, perspective, Photography, Sports, sports photography, Tips for Sports photography

Centre vs. Depauw: The World Turns Yellow

14Nov09

No, I did not mess up the white balance on the camera. The color in the photos below is actually the color of Depauw’s pool. The pool deck. The lane lines. The walls. All the same disgusting color of yellow and only made worse by the florescent bulbs that light the building. This color yellow will forever be what I think of, when I think Depauw.

I was swimming the super distance events this weekend meaning I would be swimming 62 racing laps over the course of 3 hours. The 1000 (40 laps), the 500 (20 laps) and a leg of the 200 free relay (2 laps). I swam really well despite how hard my body was pushed. I had a lifetime best in the 1000 and a seasonal best in the 500 and a pretty speedy time in for my leg of the 200 relay. I was happy overall but even happier that my events were at the start and end of the meet so I had lots of time to kill between my races. I spent most of that time cheering on teammates, but when not doing that, I was taking photos.

Both Centre teams ended up losing the meet. The men’s loss was no surprise since Depauw has won our SCAC Conference Championship every year since I’ve been swimming and probably many more before 2007, but the Centre women suffered a disappointing defeat after getting off to a slow start in some early races. We had some great swims though. Next up, the Western Kentucky Invitational! Three days of prelims/finals swimming.

ALL PHOTOS © JAMEY PRICE 2009. Under no circumstance may any photo be used for any purpose without my expressed written permission. Need a reminder of copyright law? Check THIS link. If you would like prints of any photo seen below, EMAIL ME.

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Tags: Centre College, Depauw University, Division III, Greencastle IN, Swim Meet, Swimming

Centre Photography Club Exhibition

11Nov09

The photography club has been reformed after more then 5 years of silence under the club’s new President Doug Strickland. I am the Vice President and my job is to do PR stuff for the club when we have events like this. We have quite a few interested Centre students that have become active members in the photography club and we want more to join! If you are reading this, youre a Centre student, have even a passing interest in photography, and maybe want to learn more…please email Doug.Strickland@centre.edu to be added to our email list.

For the first time in years, Centre College students will be displaying our  own personal work in the Jones Visual Arts Center (JVAC) starting this coming monday and running through the 30th of November. I have 6 pieces that I will be displaying and all of mine will be for sale. So if you’re in the area, come see the work of my fellow students and myself! We will be having a reception on monday night at 7:00pm so stop by to ask what we took, how we took it and anything else you may want to talk about!

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Tags: Centre College Photography Club

Rivalries Rule: Centre vs. Transy

07Nov09

Ohio vs. Michigan, UNC vs. Duke, UK vs. UoL, Centre vs. Transy.

These are some of the more epic college rivalries that I know of, and our collegiate feud with Transylvania University is every bit as important and emotional as the others. So on this fine November day, our team traveled to nearby Lexington to swim Transy in their home pool, in front of their students, parents, teachers and prospective students for next year. We wanted to beat them pretty badly. In a 113-101 win, the Centre swimming women remained undefeated in their 2009-2010 season and the Centre swimming men finished an equally gratifying 133-101 over our rivals.

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Tags: Centre Swimming, Centre vs. Transy, College Rivalry, Win