The response to the photography at the 2004 USMS National Championships has been fantastic, if you haven't visited the site you should. Swimmers have been interested their picture not "Human Interest" shots, I have had over 100 e-mails regarding the pictures. Thumbnails are small and look like there is insufficient light but the actual pictures look great. The photographers did a great job in breaking down each day by AM/ PM, then North/South Pool making it easier for you to navigate.
Visit the website its great.
Mel Goldstein, Meet Director
2004 USMS SC Championships
Not to be picky, but the photographer at NEM Champs web site has the photos broken down by events (and gender), and on every page there is a link to get you back to the event listing, rather than having no way to get back other than using the back arrow over and over.
The navigation on the Indy photo site is sub-par.
Sorry, Mel.
:rolleyes:
At the NEM champs, our photographer actually took all of the pictures on film, and then had them scanned in. He had taken some sample pictures in all digital before the meet, but wasn't satisfied with the light levels on a pure-digital setup.
-Rick
Rick,
Perhaps as these event photo shoots become more common people will be more interested at NEM. The photographer might want to take team pictures, etc, to peak interest. I'd much rather have a photo of myself with my teammates than on my own!
Don't give up for next year yet!
- Maria (Badger Masters, 2d place "travel" team at NEM)
The third photo "Looking Onward" motivates me so that I'm not bothered by navigation, photo quality or spelling issues. That picture, and the idea of "claiming" one's best time--reflecting one's best efforts and a year of training--makes me want to be there. Just the idea of standing where that swimmer is in the photo gives me the butterflies (as in my stomach flip flopping!) and for some odd reason that makes me want to train really hard and improve my time enough to qualify in 2005. I've only competed twice and I have a long ways to go, but I'm looking onward to FLORIDA.
Originally posted by waterSpanker
Thanx! Today's Home Page Splash Shot is pretty fun :)
Hey Ramon, that's the one I was waiting for. Koz looks so unsuspecting. :D
swimr4life and others, don't encourage Ramon. The man only gets 4 hours of sleep a week. We need to get him to pace himself, instead of asking for more of his awesome (volunteer) photo skills. ;)
Originally posted by waterSpanker
Are the criticisms regarding photo quality and navigation in reference to my "hobby-donation" shots from CMSAswimming.
I seriously doubt it. Your shots are great. The photos are great and the captions are great! You've done an outstanding job documenting the meet.
