Pictures from Michigan Football Media Day
Okay! As promised earlier this morning, I have a lot more pictures to share from today’s Michigan Football Media Day.
As in past years, I shot the event for the Associated Press. And as in past years, it was a mixed bag of results and a genuinely challenging, albeit enjoyable experience. Helps that I actually care about these players and this team…
Photos wise, I had no help for the third year in a row. Couldn’t convince Emma from the Daily to tag along and I don’t blame her for not wanting to get up at 7 in the morning! Although, I must say I fully expected all the problems and issues that could’ve made this a disaster assignment, so with my half a decade of experiencing Michigan’s Media Day now, I knew what I needed to do, and I knew what to forecast and be prepared for.
My best innovation from the assignment this year: Compiled shotlist with player mug shots.
I don’t know why I didn’t think of doing this before in the past. It made identifying the players so much easier on the field, because they’re all over the place and huge and when you’re stressed and in a time-crunch, each minute saved from scanning the crowd for your guy is a minute afforded for a picture. Worked like a charm!
The other secrets to success for covering Media Day of course would be planning out all the pictures to be taken the day before. Sunday I spent all day brainstorming all the poses and portrait ideas i could use on each player i needed to get, and like last year, it was very helpful to tryout and do a dry-run of the shoot with all the lights setup just so I had a feel for what the necessary exposure settings would need to be, which lens would work best for the shot and things like whether i needed to use my step-ladder or not. Special thanks this year to Dan Felds of the Daily for being my “Jose” this year modeling for me…
Alright that’s enough shop for now, here’s what you all are really only interested in:
 The three frosh DBs jocking around. My suggestion. |
 I just told them to be silly and push each other around. |
 Jon got a lot of shit from the sideline watchers i think… |
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 This was as good of a threesome shot as i could manage. Initially i wanted to do a “Three Little Bears” parody, but the scrum of photogs was just too rediculous: |
 My previous point… (this is only like half of them that were there hoggin my shoot damnit!)…..it was my shoot cuz i was the one who got them together. No good moochers. |
 Obligatory QB tossing the pigskin routine…. my ball that i brought no less. |
 I tried to have Mike channel those old vintage football pics |
 Mario get excited! |
 Still not so excited… it was early, i forgive you. |
 Kickers! ZZZZZZZZoltan + new not-as-fat-as-#38 kid |
 Where’s the ball!?! |
 I told them to “diss my camera” |
 Everybody was laughing at how Mario was posing in an offensive players group shot… |
 The Wovlerine’s weapons |
 Hey! There’s that smile I was looking for Mario! |
 Apparently everybody loves Austin’s prospects, so i took his pic. |
 Lloyd giving me the old stare-down |
 …but he warmed up |
 Lloyd doing something silly like every year during the team photo, Martin Vloet must love that… |
