Football Begins And So Does The Rain

Posted by Matt Lange on Sep 12, 2009 in LSU, New Orleans Saints, Sports | 1 comment

This is a ramble post.  Today is the first day of my football season.  My stomach is in knots.  I love this time of year.  Shooting sports is so much different than shooting anything else I shoot.  It’s fast paced and you get one chance to get ‘the shot’.  You also are in competition with about 50 other photographers with their lenses pointed at the exact same thing.  It’s a test of wits and creativity.  Generally you show up 2-3 hours early and you get into game mode.  For me, this just means walking into the stadium, and then I just stare at the field.  I picture movie scenes and listen to intense music.  It’s almost as though I’m about to play in the game myself.  This year is especially intense.  This is the first football season to shoot since going fulltime with my photography.  Another interesting thing to point out…you don’t get paid unless your image sells. Therefore, you have to be ‘the man’ when it comes to shooting.  If you don’t shoot well, you don’t eat, so to speak.  So you have to be on your toes.

This weekend is especially intense for me as I am shooting both LSU and the New Orleans Saints.  It’s 9:15 am on Saturday.  When I look out my window I see rain.  When I look at the weather on tv/internet, I see rain.  All day.  What a way to start the season off.  I’m supposed to be editing a music video for Motion Family right now, which I am.  But all that’s on my mind is rain gear, lenses and getting the shot.

I’m so pumped right now.  I feel like it’s me against the world.  This is the season that is going to make it or break it for me.  I’m going to either make a name for myself as one of the best to do this, or I’m hanging it up in the sports media world.  Not because I don’t love it, but because it doesn’t pay enough for the time you put into it.  The ultimate goal of this is to be a commercial sports photographer.  So needless to say, I can’t be wasting my time doing other things, no matter how much I love them.

With all that said, I’m about to go shave my head, make my Ipod playlist, get my gear together and go into battle.  It’s day one of a 3 month war.  I think I’m ready.  The end result will show whether that is true or not.   Let’s go….

Sports Editorial Gallery

Posted by Matt Lange on Sep 2, 2009 in LSU, Louisiana Tech, Sports | 0 comments

In the spirit of the upcoming football season, I decided to start showcasing my editorial sport shots again. If you go to my site, www.mattlange.com, simply scroll to the Sport Editorial gallery. Feel free to browse around and comment on whatever you wish. Man I can’t wait for football….

Hire Me

Posted by Matt Lange on Aug 30, 2009 in Basketball, Behind The Scenes, Commercial, ESPN, Engagements, Fashion, Fun, Graphic Design, Information, LSU, Louisiana Tech, Movies, Music, Photo of the Day, Photographer's Diary, Portraits, SI, Senior Portraits, Sports, Tuesday Inspiration, Uncategorized, Weddings, video | 0 comments

With web traffic where it is, I want to take this time to do a quick shameless plug for myself. Hire me for your commercial, sports and portrait photography needs. Even graphic design. As Chase Jarvis says, I’m born and bred to create art, and I would like nothing more than to do it for you. So feel free to contact me at info@mattlange.com for any licensing, pricing or availability questions. And as always, thank you for stopping by and viewing my work and reading my thoughts.

Matt

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Posted by Matt Lange on Aug 14, 2009 in LSU, Sports | 1 comment

Forgot to Post

Posted by Matt Lange on Jun 22, 2009 in Commercial, Fun, Information, LSU, Senior Portraits | 0 comments

Hey guys, I forgot…or should I say was unable to post the 2-3 posts I promised to put up this weekend. It’s cool though, because it was due to a surprise party for one of my closest friends, who I had to distract for a good part of Saturday and, of course, Father’s day, which I spent baking in the backyard with my dad BBQ-ing steaks. It was crazy hot, because if you don’t live in South Louisiana, you probably don’t know that it hasn’t rained in about a month. To some parts of the country, this is normal. However, for our area, it usually rains once every 2 weeks at least. So it was a hot one. I also gave myself a sugar hangover it feels like, so Monday is going to be loooooooong.

LSU baseball is in the CWS tonight, so I don’t know if I’ll blog before Wednesday. But I am this week. PROMISE!

Blog post topics for the week:
Matthew Carley Seniors
Marucci Bats
My new Canon 5DMKII

Later guys.

Sports Illustrated and ESPN Images Published

Posted by Matt Lange on Jun 8, 2009 in ESPN, Fun, Information, LSU, SI, Sports | 1 comment

Everyone once in while I like to go through and google my name to see if any of my sports images have been picked up for publication. Well, today happened to turn up two new ones. One was from the NFL draft, so it’s probably been out there a while. The other one is brand new at SI.com, promoting the upcoming College World Series. It’s funny it got used, and awesome, because I took it on opening weekend of the season and it just got picked up. There really isn’t a market for college baseball images so whatever they use, it will be used from now until the world series….then it’s on to preseason football. Anyway, here are the links. Check em out.

LSU Baseball:
CLICK HERE

Larry English Draft Profile:
CLICK HERE