The Big V and NBL1 basketball seasons are now underway in Victoria, and the Melbourne Sports Photography team have been busy shooting action images and player portraits. Recently Melbourne Sports Photography founder, Craig Dingle, worked with Surfcoast Baketball's Dexter Graham. Craig and Dexter created images together last year in a studio setting, and this time combined on an outdoor court in St Kilda. MelbourneSportsPhotography-8405 The very bright sunshine made for some challenging lighting conditions. The challenge was met using high powered strobes which over power the sun to c ..read more

It was Melbourne Sports Photography's pleasure to be involved in the 2024 Hanging Rock Handicap cycling race. This is a women's only cycling event hosted by the Hawthorn Cycling Club, and for the second year Melbourne Sports Photography founder Craig Dingle headed to Hanging Rock to photograph the event. MelbourneSportsPhotography-2399 The weather on race day in 2024 was terrific. A cool morning with fog over Hanging Rock gave way to a warm sunny day ideal for fast racing. A field of around 70 set off in a series of groups based on their cycling ability - designed so that ideally all the group ..read more

Skaters from the ANZAS ice skating competition in February 2024, your images are live on the Melbourne Sports Photography website. Actually, as many of you know, they have been live for a week now ... and we are just catching up with writing a blog post! The galleries are password protected, with passwords available from Ice Skating Victoria. MelbourneSportsPhotography-8087 If you would like to view and purchase images, please do so promptly, as the galleries are open until 7 March 2024. Thank you to everyone for making Craig and Bianca feel welcome as part of the ice skating community. W ..read more

An area of focus for the Melbourne Sports Photography team already this year is expanding our creative portrait offerings. These are available for club media days, teams, and individuals.  Recently Kaitlyn joined us as we tested out options including using new backgrounds built by the Melbourne Sports Photography team, and using light wands to create light trails. MelbourneSportsPhotography-4361 MelbourneSportsPhotography-4378 These images are really unique with every image different from each other. The effect is created in camera using coloured light wands to create patterns a ..read more

Melbourne's summer of tennis is well underway and Melbourne Sports Photography's Craig Dingle and Sally Jacob were both on hand to shoot the Kooyong Classic in the second week of January. MelbourneSportsPhotography-2332 MelbourneSportsPhotography-2549 This is one of the lead up events prior to the Australian Open, where the world's top tennis players seek valuable match practice and the opportunity to acclimatize to the Australian summer. This year the 3 days of the Kooyong Classic were all warm days - in the mid 20 degrees celsius up to the early 30's. The players definitely got a touch of su ..read more

While it's the middle of summer at the moment and we'd rather be at the beach(!), the team at Melbourne Sports Photography are looking ahead and seeing plenty of busy months doing team photos. If you are considering contacting us to inquire about team photos, please do so sooner rather than later. We only have a small number of vacancies left between February and the end of June 2024. MeltonWomen When you reach out it will be helpful to know: * what are your preferred dates  * how many teams and players you would like photographed * whether there are also officials (coaches and ..read more

In addition to photographing action sports and team photos, the team at Melbourne Sports Photography have spent a good part of the year meeting the demand for creative sports portraits. This has included a range of sports - footy, basketball, dance, and martial arts - and we are keen for that list of sports to grow! This style of photography is becoming increasingly popular, reflecting how important sport is to the athlete, and also enabling creative lighting effects that are not possible "in game". Dance portraits are very popular and we have completed two recent assignments in this spac ..read more

Melbourne Sports Photography was delighted to be involved in the Victorian Figure Skating Championships and Southern Cross Trophy again in 2023. Melbourne Sports Photography founder, Craig Dingle, spent 2 days with the skaters at O'Brien Icehouse in Docklands photographing the competition. He had an enjoyable time, and commented on how friendly the people were. MelbourneSportsPhotography23-36788 Images from the 2023 competition are able to be viewed here on the Melbourne Sports Photography website. You'll find them in the Galleries section under Ice Skating. Gallery passwords are available fro ..read more

August and September brought lots of winter sports grand finals. The Melbourne Sports Photography team have been busy photographing basketball, football, and hockey grand finals - capturing all the action and the celebrations. In addition, we have been shooting a series of studio images including a recent session with the team from Vibe Studios. MelbourneSportsPhotography-3988 Five of the team from Vibe arrived with lots of enthusiasm and even more costumes! Craig and Phil were slightly overwhelmed with the level of talent and energy! They had a fun session photographing the dance and che ..read more

The team at Melbourne Sports Photography enjoyed working with Essendon Rowing Club for the Saltwater Challenge. A cool start made way for a sunny day for the rowers to enjoy the action on the Maribyrnong River. Andrew, from Melbourne Sports Photography, had a busy time capturing images from the day. He managed to photograph the day in a way which covered the action and the participants in a terrific way. SaltWChallenge2023Lo-7354 If you would like to see all the images from the Saltwater Challenge, head over to their Facebook page. SaltWChallenge2023Lo-7718 There's plenty of smi ..read more