RobHelfman's photostream  

Since retiring in 2007 from software engineering, I've covered sports photography for Crenshaw High School -- basketball, track-and-field, baseball, football, volleyball, tennis, boxing, and water polo. There are more than 25,000 photos covering more than 300 "sets" -- groupings for games, matches, and events .

The purpose of this web site is to provide, at no cost, pictures of as many Crenshaw athletes as possible, for themselves, their fans, their families and friends, and -- of course -- college recruiters. Although the emphasis is on Crenshaw, I do occasionally include athletes from other schools if I really like the shot.

A Note on Name Tagging: Most pix are tagged with the names of the athletes that appear in them. Usually, the initial name tagged is either the offensive ball carrier or the defensive person closest to the ball, with the other names appearing from left to right. The reason for tagging is to facilitate searching for a particular person. When using the flickr search field, use double-quotes:

"firstname lastname"

Always include the tag 'Crenshaw' in the search field, to prevent getting extraneous matches. For example,

"DeAnthony Thomas" Crenshaw

The website's popularity has been a complete surprise to me. It was begun on December 7, 2006, and as of December 14, 2011 -- over a five-year span -- it has had more than 2,300,000 hits!

These images are Copyright © 2002-2012 Robert S. Helfman.

They May Be Freely Distributed, Copied, or Downloaded Without Charge For Non-Commercial Use Only and then Only With Attribution.

In legal terms that means I want credit. And since I'm not making money on these pix, I don't think it's fair if somebody else makes money on them either!

No "derivatives" are allowed -- you are NOT licensed to crop or perform any other alterations on the images (they must be used "as is").

Do not copy these images and repost them as your own work, as copyright infringement action will be vigorously pursued.

If you need permission for commercial use of these images, please contact me directly. I also welcome any comments you might have on these photos or suggestions about this site. Contact me by sending email to:

shawdog@earthlink.net

Please note: All the seasonal sports pix on this site will remain here until at least the beginning of the next year's respective season, when all the individual sets for that sport for that season will be combined into a single season archive. So if you want to save any of the pix, please download them while you have the opportunity!

For additional info on downloading images, see:

www.flickr.com/photos/shawdog/5506542281/sizes/o/in/set-7...

All my images are uploaded with a maximum of approximately 2048 pixels on the long side, which will give adequate resolution for prints up to 8x12. They are usually sized for printing either 4x6 (8x12) prints or 8x10 prints. You can look at the EXIF data for any pic to determine the intended format . Pix in the 8x10 format will be (approximately) 1638x2048 pixels (1 x 1.25), whereas 8x12's will be 1365x2048 (1 x 1.5).

For football, a "panorama" free-sizing has been used occasionally starting with the 2011 season. These images will always have a filename in the form "D_xxxxxP".

If you need any image for poster-prints at a higher resolution, contact me via email.

Some printing services (such as EZPRINTS.COM and COSTCO.COM) allow you to preview your image and do your own cropping, so an 8x12 image can be printed full-size or cropped "artfully" to 8x10 the way you want it.

But some other printing services don't have provisions to print 8x12 -- if you send them an 8x12 image and ask for an 8x10 print they'll chop it, and I can almost guarantee you won't like what they do to it.

Although Flickr.com allows you to print any image through your local Walgreen's, Walmart, or Long Drugs, I frankly don't think much of the quality of their product. My experience is that you will do better by downloading the images yourself and sending them online to Costco or Target's printing services.

Crenshaw alumnus MarQuis Davis turned me on to flickr.com as a way to distribute these pix, and I cannot thank him enough. "Good lookin' out, MarQuis!"

You may download any image on my site for free, but if you're interested in buying quality prints of some recent events, framed or not, please follow this link to my Imagekind.com web page:

Back to the shawdog.com main page:

www.flickr.com/shawdog/sets