Grit & Glory w/ Maria Grunack | 069

So I was noticing, over the past couple years, sports, especially women's sports, I mean, has been on the rise in such a beautiful way, um, which also means, thankfully, that we're seeing more women photographers also on these fields.

Um, and I've noticed within that, the editing in particular has gotten way more creative.

Like, people like Florence Parnet are doing really interesting things in photographing sports, and when I came across your work, that's immediately how I felt.

Like, whoa, these images look so cool and so unique.

Mm-hmm.

Are you...

When you're shooting, are you thinking about how to get a unique edit in real time, or is this happenstance? Like, as you're editing, you, you know, you're, like, catching the flow, catching flow state, and doing-

Mm

... cool tweaks.

And while you explain that, I'm gonna pull up your Instagram.

We always like to show the work that, um, our folks are doing here, so just so you know, that's about to pop up.

[laughs] Um, I think it's a mixture of both.

So sometimes I feel like I already see the vision, so I feel like I do a lot with shadows maybe, so that's something-

Mm-hmm

... that I see in real time, and, um, yeah, know kind of how I'm gonna edit the photo.

Um, but sometimes, uh, it's also, like, when I have the time to really look through my photos that I took, that I spot certain things that I haven't even seen when I took the photo.

So yeah, it's a mixture of both.

But, um, yeah, I don't know.

I just like my eye in both processes, you know? Like, when shooting, but also when editing.

Um, yeah.

I think that's interesting to me.

Yeah.

I noticed you also always have a really solid aerial shot.

How are you finding these places? Are they just also, like, the places that other media are?

Mm.