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UltiPhotos: Behind the Camera

Welcome to the UltiPhotos blog, Behind the Camera, where we provide insight into our jobs as ultimate photographers, showcase some of our best photographs, and recap our favorite tournaments.

Behind the Camera: Light & Shadow by Marshall Goff

September 12, 2013

Student: “Is the only good light available light?” Legendary news photographer W. Eugene Smith: “Yes. … By which I mean, any god damn light that’s available.” - as told in “The Moment It Clicks” by Joe McNally Photography is not about light, but light is its fundamental language*. It is a key tool we can use to make photographs that are more e...

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Behind the Camera: Finding Focus at YCC by Alex Fraser

August 15, 2013

I have a soft spot for the Youth Club Championships. As an ultimate player, I love watching the energy and enthusiasm that the players, coaches, and parents bring to the fields. As a coach, it’s great to watch these kids self-officiate and respect each other and the spirit of the game. As a photographer, YCC was the source of my first photos that w...

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Behind the Camera: A Love Story by Christina Schmidt

August 09, 2013

I played my first Ultimate tournament when I was 19. I woke up at 5 A.M. on a Saturday and drove four hours to play under a sweltering Memphis sun. The fields, if you could call them that, were a patchwork quilt of scorched grass that shredded your skin when you landed and bare, rock-hard dirt that made your feet ache. I’d picked up on an open tea...

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Behind the Camera: Wildwood by Burt Granofsky

August 01, 2013

There are tournaments. And then there is Wildwood. For the uninitiated, Wildwood Beach Ultimate is the biggest such tournament in the world. This year there were an estimated 5000 players--on 450 teams!--hucking and bidding on the south Jersey shore. Wildwood is able to accommodate so many teams because the beach is gigantic; standing at the boa...

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Behind the Camera: The Big Game by Kevin Leclaire

July 25, 2013

When I volunteered to write a blog about the MLU Championship game, I had a good idea of what I wanted to talk about. I wanted tell a story about what it meant to be covering the league’s first championship game as part of a team of four great photographers and memorializing the event for all time. I wanted to talk about shooting with a great crowd...

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UltiPhotos: Behind the Camera

UltiPhotos is made possible by the collaboration of dedicated photographers whose shared goal is to showcase the amazing action and wonderful moments experienced in the sport of Ultimate. This blog shares their perspectives on the photos they take and provide updates on UltiPhotos plans and initiatives.

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