This year the 2015 Idaho State Softball Tournament for the 3A, 4A and 5A divisions were held in North Idaho which was a tremendous blessing for me. Most of the time I have to either decide between skipping a state tournament or making the trip to the Boise area taking me away from home for the good part of a week so every time there is a state tournament held close to home it makes my entire family happy!
I shot the tournament with two Canon 1DX bodies, for the action I had used a 300mm 2.8 and a 70-200 f2.8 II, for some of the post game celebrations and awards I swapped out the 300mm for a 14mm f2.8. The 1DX bodies take up to 12 frames a second so to take advantage of the thousands of quickly shot images in sequence I have put together a stop motion style video that features most of the images I shot in the horizontal position, vertical crops don’t translate well to the aspect ratio of video so those were discarded for the video. The video is below, followed by a selection of still images from the weekend.
If you are want to view all of the photos from the tournament and to order prints you can visit my 2015 softball season galleries at this link: http://bit.ly/1ByLXFh
Here are some various images from the weekend
3A State Championship – Homedale 14, Emmett 2
4A State Championship – Bishop Kelly 2 , Kuna 1
5A State championship – Eagle 7, Coeur d’Alene 4
Jason Duchow Photography is located in Oldtown, Idaho and does on location portraiture throughout Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington. Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d'Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Living Local and a handful of other newspapers and publications.
