Being a MaxPreps Photographer

MaxPreps.com is a popular website where photographers upload digital images of high school sports action. Downloads of the images are available in varying sizes, but not prints. You can find images by searching school and then refining by sport and game date. MaxPreps screens photographers and reviews a portfolio before accepting them as contributors. After regularly posting quality galleries, you are issued a MaxPreps Photographer’s Pass. I’ve been posting on the site for a few years now and have over 80 galleries.

My MaxPreps galleries only have a fraction of the photos than my own galleries of the same games. The guidelines MaxPreps uses for acceptable photos is straightforward. They prefer clean, simple type shots, ideally head to toe and coming at you. Photos with traffic, overlapping arms, water splashes, etc… are rejected, even though they may be great photos! The images of Reyn and Emily on the left are examples of photos that I would not post on MaxPreps. Galleries are reviewed by an editor before they are published, and submitting these types of photos delays a gallery from being posted on the site.

Shooting a game and hustling for sales afterwards isn’t where I am now. My focus is working directly with the teams and with parents on the packages I offer on my own website, but being on MaxPreps gives me added visibility.

For even more details, I once posted a blog “MaxPreps vs. Sloppy’s”.