OutdoorKids — Photo production
Reportage photography for OutdoorKids: the brand’s children’s sports program. A day with the OutdoorKids, photographed on the artificial pitch and in the park…
A day with the OutdoorKids, photographed on the artificial pitch and in the park: hurdles, star jumps in a line, a handstand against the summer sky, a boy in a football shirt shooting at goal, a girl in full protective gear on a skateboard, and at the end the group in cycle helmets with their arms thrown up.
Children in motion cannot be posed. You learn the exercise, choose your position, and wait for the moment when they are all at the top together. With star jumps in a line that moment comes once per repetition and lasts a fraction of a second — miss it and you simply wait for the next one. That is the advantage of exercises: they repeat, which makes them predictable without anything having to be staged.
Height decides things here too. The handstand is taken from below against the sky so the child stands clear against blue and cloud — at eye level the fence behind the pitch would have run through the frame. Artificial pitches are surrounded by nets, goals and containers, and the sky is the only clean background available.
The protective gear stays visible and is not cropped away. At a sports program for children a helmet is not an intrusion in the picture but exactly what parents want to see before they sign up.
And the group picture at the end is the only frame with anything agreed in advance. All arms up, everyone looking at the camera — after a morning of movement that works in two attempts. At the start of the day the same request would have cost five minutes and produced a disappointing picture.
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- Commercial
