Guides, tips and stories for athletes and the photographers who shoot them
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Interest in race photos drops fast after the first week, but a properly tagged gallery keeps selling for weeks longer than a social post ever could. Here is how to publish fast, repost smart, and let search extend the sales window.
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CrossFit Union Square, Brooklyn Boulders and Church Street Boxing Gym all run their own community events and competitions that need better photos than a phone on a shelf. Here is how to pitch the partnership and get paid for it.
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Basketball City, ZogSports, Gotham Volleyball and the Millrose Games at The Armory keep New York's games running all winter indoors. Here is where to shoot once the outdoor season slows down, and what changes about your settings.
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Hourly rate, flat fee, or price per photo: how sports photography actually gets priced, what the real per-photo numbers look like, and how to set a price on Surf Snaps that neither scares off buyers nor leaves money on the table.
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CRCA, Fast and Fabulous and Five Borough Bicycle Club all ride on a fixed weekly schedule. Here is how to turn one of those standing rides into a repeatable shoot, how to pitch the partnership, and how to sell the photos afterward.
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PSAL fall sports, West Side Soccer League's four-park fall season, Randall's Island youth soccer and cross country season at Van Cortlandt Park: where NYC's youth leagues actually play, and why parents make an easier buyer than almost anyone else.
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North Brooklyn Runners, November Project NYC and Bridge Runners all meet on a fixed weekly schedule with the same crowd showing up together. Here is how to turn that into a standing shoot instead of chasing one race a year.
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Locals, New York Surf School and Surf's Up NY run beginner lessons almost every day in the Rockaways. Here is how to turn that fixed schedule into a standing shoot, how to pitch the partnership, and how Surf Snaps already has an arrangement in place at Surf's Up NY.
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A borough-by-borough map of where New York's games actually happen: the 60-plus soccer fields on Randall's Island, Rucker Park and the Cage for basketball, Wollman and LeFrak Center for ice, and Icahn Stadium's world-record track.
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From the Brooklyn Half and the NYC Marathon to the 5th Avenue Mile and NYRR's weekend races in Central Park, here is which NYC races actually deliver enough runners, choke points and emotional finish lines to make selling the photos worth it.
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What NYC photographers actually earn shooting real estate, headshots, events, weddings and pets, with real rate ranges, and why sports and athlete photography, the one hustle that needs no bookings, might be the easiest to start this weekend.
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Where to shoot tennis in New York for photos players will actually buy: the clay at Central Park Tennis Center, the U.S. Open grounds at Flushing Meadows, the Hudson-side courts in Morningside Heights, and the permit rules that keep you shooting there.