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Kenneth May Photography News
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and promotional announcements.
Recent
Action Picture Raffle Winners!
HERE
11/21 Kenneth May
Photography was awarded the Chandler Youth
Basketball Team/Individual photography for the second
consecutive year! On Saturday 28 teams were
photographed...
11/1
Contact Kenneth May Photography
for your family Christmas Card pictures! Free 5x7
with your order!!
9 /13 Kenneth May
Photography will again be scheduling photography
requests for the Castle Youth Football League season and
Castle Bowl. Please contact me at either
mayk@wowway.com or
449-2935 to schedule a game and remember, there is never
any fee to request photography!
9/12 Kenneth May
Photography has again been awarded the Official
Action Photographer for the upcoming 2009/2010
Evansville Youth Hockey tournaments.
8/15 Kenneth May
Photography is proud to be associated with the
Castle Baseball Golf Outing in September!
8/3 This years
65 Roses Cystic Fibrosis outing was another
great success and I was fortunate to play just a very
small part of the entire days fund raising.
For those who are curious why it is called '65
Roses', it is what some children with 'CF' call
their disease because the words are much easier for them
to pronounce. The story goes that Mary G. Weiss
became a volunteer for the CF Foundation in 1965 after
learning that her three little boys had CF. Her
duty was to call every civic club, social and service
organization seeking financial support for CF research.
Mary's 4 year old son would listen closely to his mother
as she made each call. After several calls,
Richard came into the room and told his mom, " I know
what you are working for." Mary was dumbstruck because
Richard did not know what she was doing, and when asked,
Richard stated, "You are
working for 65 Roses".
Mary was speechless....and she went over to him and
tenderly pressed his body to hers. He could not
see the tears running down Mary's cheeks as she
stammered, "Yes Richard, I'm working for 65 Roses".
And now you know why for the last 44 years, "65
Roses" has been used by children of all ages to
describe their disease. The rose, appropriately
the ancient symbol of love, has become a symbol of the
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
All the golfers had a great time, but more importantly,
money was raised to continue the fight of this terrible
disease. To learn more on how you can join the
fight, please visit:
http://indiana.cff.org
(Indiana Chapter)
or www.cf.org
7/13 For the second
year in a row, Kenneth May Photography will be the
official photographer for the 65 Roses Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation golf outing.
7/11 and 7/12
Although rain delayed the games on Saturday, the
Boonville Jr Baseball league had a great 'Summer Slam"
tournament and Kenneth May Photography was the official
photographer capturing the exciting action. 34
games were photographed on Saturday and Sunday.
6/1 Kenneth May Photography will be the
official photographer for both the 14 y/o Semi-State
tournament and the Ohio Valley Regional tournament in
Newburgh in July.
4/5 Want to see your
STAR pictures at area restaurants? Click
HERE
for details and restaurant locations around the
Tri-State!
4/1 Kenneth May
Photography was among several
businesses/photographers asked to submit a proposal to
cover the entire Boonville Boys and Girls
Baseball/Softball League picture day
requirements. I am proud to be awarded the
official contract for both the picture
days and season long exciting game and tournament
action. The league has over 48 teams for the
regular season and to ensure your STARs game
time/tournament action is captured, please pre-register
HERE.
Stop over to the large display during the season and
tournaments and make sure to sign up for a chance to win
a free "Season Photography Package" (2-8x10s and
2-5x7s)! The team and individual picture schedule
will be coming out shortly and will be provided by your
coach.
A portion of all profit will be going
back to the league! PLAY BALL!
3/31 With baseball
season about to get underway, I have received several
emails asking what leagues/schools I will be covering
for game time and/or tournament action. For the
third consecutive year, I will be the official game time
and tournament photographer for the Newburgh Boys
Baseball League, and will continue to donate a
portion of all profit back to the league! In
addition, I continue to be the official action
photographer for all Castle Sports....To
ensure your STARs action is captured, please
pre-register
HERE
or tap me on the shoulder when you see me at any of the
area games all season long. If your STAR is
playing in a league or area high school where no action
photography is offered, please contact me as well, and I
will make sure to cover at least one of their games.
Again for 2009, there is never any fee to request my
photography services for action sports photography and
the photos are never taken off line or a charge to view
after 30 days. No matter if your STAR is in a
league/school district I cover regularly, or not
(including Kentucky), let me capture your STAR in action
for a life time of memories!
3/24 As I continue to
expand my photography services for the Tri-State-am
working hard on upgrading the website to illustrate
these exciting new services. What started as
offering purely action sports photography has grown over
the last several years to include the traditional team
day photography, to corporate and event photography,
family/senior portraits, to even the demanding business
of wedding photography. Although the website's
look and feel may change over the next few months, my
commitment to providing exceptional service and
outstanding photography will not. In addition, I
have expanded my home office to include a full working
studio-equipped with all professional equipment-such as-
remote lighting, props, and backdrops. The studio
also includes a comfortable/private outfit
changing-makeup area. So in addition to providing on
location/outdoor portrait photography in 2009, will now
be able to offer fine studio photography.
3/8 The Evansville
Thunder Youth Hockey organization held their Spring
Tournament this weekend, with 16 teams participating in
the heated action on the ice! Teams came in from
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama, and Illinois
and family and friends were treated to exciting action
in all age groups.
I was again contracted to be
the official photographer for all games and over the two
day weekend tournament 21+ hours of coverage was
provided. Galleries of the game time
action can be viewed
HERE.
One of the main comments I hear about shooting hockey,
is how difficult it can be---especially when the rink
has either dim lights, or some that are out...as well
as, shooting behind the 'dirty/smudgy' glass.
Although I have been known to go on the ice before a
game and clean parts of the glass that I plan on
shooting behind, it is only a matter of time the glass
will either have puck marks on it, or worse, begin
to fog up. No amount of Windex will help...
Shooting on the bench takes care of this issue and
although I do shoot a lot from the benches, if you want
to capture some exciting head on action by the net-with
the players looking right at you, the only way around
this is behind the glass. Fortunately, with the
correct fast lens (2.8 or faster) even the darkest rinks
and foggiest glass is no match for a photographer who
can post process the majority of these issues away!
Although all of my images on line for purchase are
displayed at low resolution for faster and easier
viewing, each photo that is ordered, is worked on
individually before sending off for printing. Look
at the two examples below....the one on the left is
right out of the camera while the one on the right would
be sent off for printing....Hard to believe they are the
same picture.....what dirty glass? (The haze seen
on the picture on the left is actually the glass!)
Should you have any
questions on the steps to possibly make your own
pictures turn out better, watch for a new area of this
website coming soon on photography techniques and
Photoshop tricks and tips!
2/26 Kenneth May
Photography is proud to once again be selected as
the Official Photographer for both Team Day and Action
Photography for the Evansville Lacrosse League. For the
second year in a row, KMP will provide exciting
tournament action photography, as well as, the
traditional team day photos. Learn more about the
league
HERE.
2/19 I continue to
receive a lot of positive emails and comments on the
quality of the prints that are received compared to what
they look like on line. This is exactly one
of the reasons I have such an extensive display at
events- to show the quality of the prints. Images
you see on line are "low resolution" files that have not
been post processed-meaning individually worked on for
the best quality. The reason they are shown at low
resolution, is to speed up the viewing process.
Not every household has high speed internet and having
high resolution files would add extra time to view.
Every digital file (image)
needs to be 'tweaked', and by working with each file in
Photoshop, the colors will have more 'pop'... an image
that may appear to 'dark' will suddenly have the correct
brightness and less 'noise'. To see an example of
image before and after processing-please click
HERE.
2/6 For
the third consecutive year,
Kenneth May Photography has been named the
EXCLUSIVE
action photographer for the Newburgh Junior
Baseball League. Regular season games and ALL
tournaments will have action photography provided by
Kenneth May Photography!
2/1
Kenneth May Photography has been awarded the
photography contract for the Evansville Hockey
house
tournament at Swonder Ice Rink on Feb 13th-15th and Feb
21st-22nd.
12/1
Kenneth May Photography has been awarded the
photography contract for both Team Photography and Game
Time Action photography for the Chandler Youth
Basketball League!
11/22
World Power Lifting
Championships- Kenneth May Photography
was a proud sponsor of the recent World Tournament held
in Evansville. Details of both the National
Tournament and World Tournament
HERE.
11/21
Kenneth May Photography has been awarded for the
second year in a row the tournament action photography for the
upcoming Evansville Thunder Hockey Tournaments in
2009!
7/28 There are times when a schedule conflict
develops and I can not make a requested
event...then there are times no matter the
scheduling issues, I will do whatever I can
to not miss the event....not because of the
business potential, but because it is the
right thing to do. This was the case
when I received a call from the Indiana
Chapter - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation out
of Indianapolis.
After the Foundation did an extensive
google search of all Evansville
photographers, I was asked to be the
official photographer, to cover all of the
fun and festivities during the
Sixty-Five Roses Golf Classic in
August. Photography and golf is a great
combination, but add the importance and hard
work the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
performs, and nothing could be better!
HERE
Event Gallery
HERE
7/16 Requests for my event photography services have
taken me many places over the years...From
the famous racing circuits in North America,
to countless sporting events of football,
soccer, baseball, hockey, etc. I can
now add another first time event, as I
received a call from the City of Evansville
to be on hand for the I-69 ground breaking
ceremony with the Governor of Indiana-Mitch
Daniels- in attendance. The gallery of
the entire ceremony can be seen
HERE.
7/8 Lately, I have
been receiving a lot of questions via email and during
games, why I password protect the galleries and why it
takes so long to get the password. Let me handle
the second question first, you should receive the
password within an hour (or so) after requesting-if I am
in town and not traveling, as I
am notified of the request and submit the approval.
I have heard that some email accounts consider the
confirmation email as "junk mail" and place in the junk
mail folder > I am checking into this and will try to
correct this ASAP.... Some have asked that I just
do away with the password of galleries, which leads to
the first question, of why place a password on a gallery
in the first place? Some will even add I am losing
sales by doing so....The ONLY reason I protect
the galleries with a simple password is to make it just
a bit 'safer' for our young STARs. People who want
to see the photos of the STARs in action need to request
a password and if that limits just one person with
'questionable' reasons not able to view, then I am happy.
In this day and age of the internet, even a simple
password may go a long way of keeping our STARs safe.
Should there be any
difficulty in obtaining the passwords or delays, please
call me right away at 812-449-2935 and I will be able to
give you the password over the phone. Thanks to
all of you who have expressed concern on this issue!
6/21
Where can the fans and
family of the many youth STARs of SW Indiana go to read
up on news of their STARs? League websites offer a
lot of information and are critical to their success;
however, what about original reporting and coverage of
exciting game time action? Watch for exciting news
on the launching of a new Youth Stars website based
magazine. Interested in the many marketing
opportunities? Contact Ken May at
mayk@wowway.com to
learn some of the details.
6/20 Kenneth May
Photography will be the Official Photographer for
the National Power Lifting Championship in
Evansville and also the Official Photographer for the
World Championship in November! (HERE)
6/9
Parents/Coaches-Make sure to schedule photography
for your STAR's exciting tournament action in the
Tri-State (HERE).
There is never any fee to schedule and will ensure all
of the action is captured!
Tournament Directors-If your tournament would like
to offer action photography, please contact me to hear
the details on how a portion of all sales goes back to
the league! Tournament Sponsorship
opportunities also exist to assist in making your event
a success!
For all Newburgh Junior Baseball
tournaments in June and July, Kenneth May Photography
is the only official photographer providing action
photography and will be at both Vann and Mulzer fields
throughout the tournaments. Stop over to the large
display of work and sign up for a free 8x10 picture!
6/6 Kenneth May
Photography had the privilege of being part of the
Castle Athletic Silent Auction Gala, by donating
a $100 photography package, as well as, a custom Wall
Star package($100). The two winners won certificates
to have their STAR photographed throughout the 2008/2009
season!
5/29 For the
second consecutive year, Kenneth May
Photography has been named the 2008 EXCLUSIVE
action photographer for the Castle Youth Football
League. Regular season games and all Castle Bowl
games will be covered...to ensure your STAR is
photographed during exciting game time action, make sure
to schedule a game! (HERE)
3/24 Kenneth May
Photography has been named the 2008 EXCLUSIVE
action photographer for the Evansville Youth
Lacrosse League! In addition, Kenneth May
Photography will handle the team photography day for
both team and individual pictures.
Make sure to schedule game time action of your STAR! (HERE)
3/4 Kenneth May
Photography has been selected as the Official
Photographer for the "Evansville Spring THUNDERSTORM"
Hockey Tournament at Swonder Ice Complex! Teams
from Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee will be competing
3/15 and 3/16.
3/3 Kenneth May
Photography has been selected as the Official
Action Photographer for the Indiana State Hockey
Tournament in Evansville (Swonder Ice Complex)!
1/28
For the second year in a row, Kenneth May
Photography has been named the EXCLUSIVE
action photographer for the entire 2008 Newburgh
Boys Baseball Season!
Make sure to schedule game time action of your STAR! (HERE)
1/22
I just got back from attending the National
Sports and Event Association conference and will be
able to provide more exciting products and stream line
order entry in 2008. In order to stay abreast of all new
developments in the action sports photography business,
attended several seminars and was in attendance to
listen to one of the nations premier sports photographer
(Ben Chen) give insight on improving the skills
necessary for action photography.
In 2008, my inventory of
Canon L lenses will increase to add the 300mm 2.8 lens.
Although the fields in SW Indiana and Kentucky are great
for day games, the lighting can make it very difficult
for night games or some indoor gyms. Along with
the 300mm lens, I will continue to utilize all Canon
professional equipment. The best way to make sure you
can capture the action, is to have the correct glass
(lens) and my list of Canon lenses include the powerful
500mm, 400mm, 70-200mm, 17-40mm, 85mm, and 24-70mm.
11/11
New custom poster layouts now available! Go to the
price list (HERE)
to see examples and pricing. To have any image in
the galleries used in an action poster or with a custom
border, please contact me (HERE)
with the file number(s) of the images. Remember,
there is never any fee to request sample posters to
review.
10/18
Kenneth
May Photography has been awarded the exclusive
rights to provide action photography for the
Newburgh Youth Basketball season.
Games at Yankeetown, Sharon, Newburgh Elementary, Castle
Elementary, and Warrick Educational Center will be
covered! Make sure to schedule game time action of your
STAR! (HERE)
to ensure the exciting game time action is captured.
Watch for our display during certain games this season!
9/21
While
at a recent game, several parents enquired why their
son/daughter's pictures were not in a recent game day
gallery. Please remember, in order to ensure your
STAR is photographed, please schedule photography (HERE).
My first priority at every game is to photograph the
players whose parents or coaches have
scheduled/requested photography, as well as, provide
pictures to the league/school/tournament.
REMEMBER,
THERE IS NEVER ANY FEE TO SCHEDULE PHOTOGRAPHY!
9/21
Several
parents have mentioned when trying to log on to the
galleries to view pictures, the name and email prompt
either times out or cycles back. I apologize for
this issue and will disable the 'name/email log-on'
feature. The issue is with certain operating
software, but to ensure everyone has the ability to view
the public galleries, this feature will be turned off.
For private galleries, passwords will still be required.
9/18
Want to see a 'WALL STAR' On
Your STAR's wall?
Kenneth May Photography is now offering 'WALL
STAR' Pictures of your STAR! Contact Ken
May for more details on this exciting offer-exclusive to
the Evansville area! To request more information on this
new product click
HERE
9/1
Kenneth
May Photography has been awarded the exclusive
rights for action photography for the
McCutchanville's Fall Ball season.
8/26
Kenneth May Photography has been awarded the
exclusive rights for action photography for the Newburgh
Pepsi-Cola Soccer League.
8/20
Kenneth May Photography has been awarded the
exclusive rights for action photography for ALL Castle
Schools Sports in 2007/2008.
8/17
Kenneth May Photography has been awarded the
exclusive rights for action photography for the
Newburgh Junior Football League in 2007.
5/1
Kenneth May Photography has been awarded the
exclusive rights for action photography for the
Newburgh Junior Baseball League in 2007.
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