When you travel you should always let the photo editors you work with know where you’re going.  You never know where an editor might need someone for an assignment.  I let the editors of ESPN RISE know that I would be in the Cape Cod/Boston/New England area to see if they had any location-specific assignments.  It turns out they did.  They hired me to shoot for their ESPN RISE Boston edition.

Here is a ridiculous test shot of me wearing the guys high school basketball uniform to make sure the red came out correctly against the blue background before the actual shoot took place.

For the story and photo shoot, ESPN RISE featured two high school basketball players, Katie Zenevitch, the best girls player in the state, and Carson Desrosiers, the top center in Massachusetts.  Both players are  from Central Catholic High School, in Lawrence, Massachusetts.  Katie will be playing for Boston College in 2010.  Carson was signed to Wake Forest for their 2010 season.  For this shoot, I decided to set up in the auditorium which doubled as their gymnasium.  The curtain on the stage was used as my backdrop.  I had the players jump off the stage onto a gymnastics mat.  You can view the tearsheets below.  To see more images from the shoot, click here.

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