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1. 1,304 Photos from the 2008 SEC Championship Game
11 months ago
I photographed the 2008 SEC championship football game on assignment for Sports Illustrated. The Florida Gators beat the Alabama Crimson Tide at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to advance to the BCS title game in January.

I thought I'd steal a page from Chase Jarvis' playbook (thanks, Chase!) and put together a video with most of my images from the shoot.

There are a total of 1,304 still photos used in this three-minute piece. I shot 1,859 frames at the game, but the video is edited down for time. A handful of the photos are repeated to work with the music.

It starts with pre-game shots of the coaches and goes all the way through the trophy presentation and Tim Tebow's post-game lap around the field.

Read more details on my blog:
davidbergman.net/blog/2008/12/18/1304-photos-from-the-2008-sec-championship-game/

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  • Francis Gosse 11 months ago
    show me attley
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  • Jared Foster plus 11 months ago
    nice edit. I'd rather watch hockey but really cool sequence and images.
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  • Andres Fernandez 11 months ago
    nice job
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  • Reynold Funk 11 months ago
    absolutely awesome.... I keep on telling photographers that they are closer to film than TV guys and than they think personally. Very nice. Some of those parts you must have shot up to 15 or more pictures a second.... 24 frames a second is film. your close
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  • alex maier 11 months ago
    edited very well
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  • Wynner3 11 months ago
    Very cool. My favorite shot is at 1:19 with one guy in mid air about to be tackled.
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  • Dan Valentine plus 11 months ago
    Great work David. What are you using to shoot with?
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  • Frank 11 months ago
    Wow :)
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  • Térence 11 months ago
    nice work
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  • Mugur Marculescu 11 months ago
    Good stuff, you should check out wegif.com, it's all about this style of editing.
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  • Edwin Villanueva 11 months ago
    Wow. That was cool. Great job!
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  • Justin 11 months ago
    "Hoover" fo sho.

    This is brilliant.
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  • josiah douglas 11 months ago
    I love the videos when you edit together photos
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  • mariohbm 11 months ago
    hay all are you ready
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  • Roman Rojas 11 months ago
    cool!
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  • Robert-Jon Eckhardt 11 months ago
    Incredible!
    Good choices on music and editing.
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  • Jarrard Cole 11 months ago
    Nice work! I'd love to see this in HD.
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  • Great jpb.
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  • Clay Productions plus 11 months ago
    nice keeping with the music.
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  • Vinh Nguyen 11 months ago
    very nice animation, beautiful freeze frames of epic ballerina's on field
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  • FH Alexander 11 months ago
    Very cool -
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  • Olli-Pekka Mahrberg 11 months ago
    good pics
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  • www.bastienroger.com plus 11 months ago
    yeah, bravo, impressionnant, super rythme, pauvre obturateur, il a du bien chauffer ;) Vive la pixilation.
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  • Flo VC 11 months ago
    nice editing
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  • mauricio abaroa 11 months ago
    brilliant!
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  • J Meyer 11 months ago
    Great shots, great editing, great music choice. Amazing how you were able to capture some of these shots without people stepping in front - tough to shot football games anywhere on the field.
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  • David Bergman 11 months ago
    Thanks everyone for the very kind words.

    For those who asked, I use Nikon D3 bodies and put it all together with Final Cut Pro. You can read more about it on my blog:
    davidbergman.net/blog/
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  • Scott Curington plus 11 months ago
    Very, very nice. Awesome work.

    Who did the music?

    Later.
  • David Bergman 11 months ago
    I licensed the music royalty free from cssmusic.com.
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  • Walter 11 months ago
    Cool it give a look on how a photografer works.
    Short series of fotos, it give ma a total new way to see sport...
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  • Kristjan Pillak 11 months ago
    Amazing. I love the game and your job is awesome.
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  • cain hammontree 10 months ago
    You had a really nice action shot of my friend Chas henry. He was my quarterback in high school. We actually played in the dome as well Senior year. Great Work!
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  • Dayna Cano 10 months ago
    Very cool edits and nice photography, I don't think you mentioned this, what ind of camera are you using?
  • David Bergman 10 months ago
    Thanks Dayna. I mostly used Nikon D3 bodies. I just added a link to my blog, which has more tech info.
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  • Jeff Frick plus 10 months ago
    very cool. What app did you use to create the composition?
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  • Chris Cass 10 months ago
    I was at the game and took video from 2nd level. You did a great job. As a GATOR, thanks.
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  • Zack Arias 10 months ago
    Great job holmes! Glad to see this as a staff fave on vimeo!

    Cheers,
    Zack Arias
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  • Florent 10 months ago
    Great photos of my favorite sport ! What else ? Good choice of music. Everything works perfectly nice.
    The ambiance is very well transcribed. Some day, i'll go to see a match in real !
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  • Nikio 9 months ago
    Great work!!!

    I have a question: is it possible to use this music in my project of similar kind?
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  • Ron Galvan 5 months ago
    Name of the song? great work.
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  • Adam Horn 3 months ago
    Go Gators... Nice work dude
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