Cover a live pitch competition where the moments that matter cannot be repeated or restaged.
A pitch competition is harder to photograph than it looks. Every founder on stage gets one run. The judges react once. The result lands once. Nothing can be asked for again, and the stage lighting is built for the audience rather than for a camera.
Miss a founder's best gesture and there is no second pass. Miss the judges' reaction and the story loses its other half.
We covered the Take Flight Business Conference and the PropelHER Pitch Competition at Full Sail University.
Treat every pitch as its own shoot. Each founder got the same coverage: the wide that establishes the stage, and the tight one that catches the gesture where they are most themselves.
Shoot the judges. A competition is a conversation between the stage and the panel. The reaction shots are what make the images read as a contest rather than a series of talks.
Expose for the stage, not the room. Hard theatrical lighting against a dark house is an opportunity rather than a problem if you let the background go black.
Coverage of the morning program: the opening on the NAWBO stage, founders pitching with their own product branding on screen, the judges' feedback, and the audience around it.
A set of images the chapter can use to promote the next competition, and that founders can use to show their own pitch.
Tell us what you're working on and we'll take it from there.
