It's not just the sports that I photograph at the Olympics

Since I am shooting for USA Hockey as my primary team at these Olympics, I am called upon to photograph numerous different events throughout the Games. Most of those are the actual games, but there are other events which need to be covered as well. As you saw in an earlier blog post, I shot the women's team photo yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon I was called upon to photograph the women's press conference.

I started by shooting some wide shots with the Canon 1D X MKII and then Canon 70-200mm lens.

I then switched to the Canon 100-400mm lens to isolate photos of each person on the stage.

It is important for me to get photos of everyone, including the manager of the team and the coach.

I usually try to give the team a variety of photos, with individuals, pairs, larger groups, and from different angles.

I was sitting in the second row right behind all the other hockey players (since only a select few are ever asked to be on stage) and decided to sneak out from where I was sitting. I wanted to move to the front of the room to get a shot of all of them. First I shot a little wider...

...and then I zoomed in a bit, focused on one athlete and took this shot. Same grouping but I slightly different look for the team.

As the press conference was winding down and there were no more questions from the reporters, it was time for the team to spread out around the room for individual interviews. But before they did this, it was my opportunity to get them all up on stage for another team photo, this time in front of the PyeongChang logo.

After shooting the big group shot, I quickly moved upstairs at the MPC to the photo workroom and edited the photos for the team's communications manager. I then wrote this and another blog before heading over to a photographer's welcome party. I got back to my room at 10:30pm and was very ready for some sleep. It was a good day of photography and the Games haven't even started yet. The real action is yet to come!

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