Every once in a while someone posts about being published in a magazine, and I just wanted to share a recent experience of mine, not for the fact that I was published, 'cuz this isn't that remarkable, but for what it taught me about when to shoot and what to look for in publishable images.
In the past couple weeks, two of my images have been picked up by Sports Illustrated and ESPN the magazine, in that order. Both shots were of Milwaukee Brewer 3B and leading Rookie of the Year candidate Ryan Braun. Not that big of a deal (the first one of Braun is so small in print I missed it until my wire service pointed it out), but when I was looking at the one that got into ESPN, something about it grabbed my attention, so I went into my archives to find it, and it turns out this image was not only of the same player as the one that SI published a couple weeks ago, not only from the same game, not only from the same at bat, it was the NEXT image in the "roll"!
What's the lesson here? IMO, keep shooting. Shoot everything. You never know what will sell, when it will sell and to whom. Don't ever go to the bathroom (OK, that's a little extreme). Take shots of everything happening around you. Document the event fully. Be prepared.
On this particular at bat, Braun hit an RBI triple, but in neither publication was this mentioned. They were published as "stock" images. They both happened to be writing stories about Ryan Braun and found my images in the stock library of the wire service for whom I shot the game.
Here are the images as they were submitted.
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