RWS Photography - Pittsburgh children's photography » Gymnastics http://rwschulz.com/blog Fun kids photography - Pittsburgh Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:30:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 “Purple” – i heart faces http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/07/over-my-head-purple/ http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/07/over-my-head-purple/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:51:34 +0000 Ryan http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/07/over-my-head-purple/ Since I spent the entire weekend watching gymnastics, I thought I would enter a gymnastics photo into this week’s i heart faces photo contest. The theme? Purple.

Link to the challenge page here.

]]> http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/07/over-my-head-purple/feed/ 4 2010 US Classic http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/07/2010-us-classic/ http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/07/2010-us-classic/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:38:13 +0000 Ryan http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/07/2010-us-classic/ Well, our trip to Chicago was certainly eventful. Almost 9.5 hours in the car, the hotel losing air conditioning and water for 4 hours, every other hotel in Chicago being full because it is their “busy season”, and our smoking “non-smoking” room. It’s a good thing the awesome gymnastics made up for all of that.

Unforunately, I was only able to take photos of half of the first session of gymnastics (out of three total sessions) before I was told to put my camera away. There were definitely some insane camera restrictions going on. It really stunk to have to stop taking photos, but I finally watched a meet like a normal spectator and I must say, it was pretty fun.

Here are a few of my favorites from the session. A link to the complete gallery of the session is at the end of this post below the photos.

*COMPLETE GALLERY FROM THE SESSION*
Juniors Session 1

My other blog posts about gymnastics here.

]]> http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/07/2010-us-classic/feed/ 2 Can’t hang it on the wall? Make it a book. http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/06/cant-hang-it-on-the-wall-make-it-a-book/ http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/06/cant-hang-it-on-the-wall-make-it-a-book/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:00:48 +0000 Ryan http://rwschulz.com/blog/?p=1292 This post is for all you gymnastics fans out there! Anyone? Bueller?

Last year after my trip to Nationals I was stuck with the dilemma of “what to do with all of my favorite photos from the meet?”

My solution? Photo books. I made a photo book to put on the shelf and keep the rest of my gymnastics books company. This was so much fun for me since many of my photos never make it off of my computer. Some of the lucky few (my absolute favorites) make it to my walls, but if I were to hang every photo I loved, there wouldn’t be a millimeter of clear space. Although, if you have ever been to my house, you probably know that adding more books to my overwhelming collection isn’t the greatest idea either. But hey, I can lie to myself and say that piles of books are a good thing, right?

This first book is a layflat hardcover book. When it sits on the shelf with my other books it looks right at home!

This second book is something I made for one of my gymnasts. We did a really fun photoshoot a few summers ago so I took a bunch of her photos from that day and put them into a little linen softcover book. I really love how this one came out. Of course, this one is much more personal to me.

You can see the linen paper pretty well in this shot.

A two-page spread.

I am in love with the photo on the right.

This last book is from a meet earlier this year. This was the first elite qualifying met I have ever been able to go to. I had a blast. It was so fun to be able to watch all of the up-an-coming gymnasts try to qualify for the presitigious National Championships. There was SO much talent in one meet!

Front cover

Two-page spreads.

And those photos I mentioned at the beginning of this post? You know, the hundreds of favorites for which I have no space? You can check them all out here.

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]]> http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/04/wordless-wednesday-26/feed/ 0 Season debut http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/01/season-debut/ http://rwschulz.com/blog/2010/01/season-debut/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:28:12 +0000 Ryan http://rwschulz.com/blog/?p=835 I am so behind on this post that the next meet is almost here again! Here are some of my favorites from the meet on Saturday. It was Pitt’s first regular season meet of the year against Kent State and WVU. WVU came out on top this time.

Jessica Byich has a rockin new double layout dismount!

Jessica Byich has a rockin new double layout dismount!

I am in LOVE with this photo

The full gallery from the meet is here. Pitt’s next meet is Friday night against Ohio State. See you there!

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