Photo Day Down To A Science.

Rock it out

Joe Dunay

Head of Marketing, Ops and Production

Sean Bass

Owner. Also your Main Contact.

Your board gets to be hands-off, and your families get images they're proud of from people they actually know. We show up for the same clubs, leagues, and schools season after season, and we plan to keep it that way.

01 · Who We Are

We shoot sports.

No weddings, no yearbook pics, no newborns. Just athletes, all year long, since 2016. We specialize in high-volume rec and competitive sports, and we've built the whole studio around doing it well. The team that photographs your athlete is the same team that edits the photo, builds the team image, designs the graphics, and answers the parent emails. All of it under one roof means big days run smooth and every image comes back polished.

02 · By The Numbers

100,000+ athletes photographed.

• 208 Clubs, leagues & schools
• 750+ Photo-day jobs
• 2016 Sports only, ever since
• 14 Sports

03 · Who We Work With

Northeast Ohio season after season.

Rec leagues, travel clubs, school programs, all over Northeast Ohio. A lot of these folks have been with us for years.

• Kenston Travel Baseball
• Geauga Federation Soccer
• Lake Erie Panthers Hockey
• Elite Volleyball
• Solon Lightning Soccer
• Ohio Cobras Fastpitch
• Sharks Hockey
• Twinsburg Baseball
• Aurora
• St Gabriel Grizzlies
• Force Ohio
• Willoughby Starzz
• SPC Hot Sox
• Concord
• Parma Flyers Hockey
• Hudson Lacrosse
• North Royalton High
• Willoughby Soccer
• Elyria Panthers Hockey
• Big Red Fastpitch
• Madison Softball
• NEO Volleyball
• Madd Batters
• Twinsburg Wrestling
• Hudson Basketball
• Riverside Beavers
• Mentor Heisley Soccer
• IVL Baseball
• Rocky River Youth Hockey
• Orange High School
• Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin
• Beachwood Bison
• All Around Gymnastics
• Mentor Hockey
• Explosive Fastpitch
• Mentor Soccer
• Mentor Christian School
• RockCity Volleyball
• Ohio Prospects Hockey
• Eastlake Basketball
• Saint Ignatius
• Mater Dei Knights
• Aurora Raptors Fastpitch
• University School
• Eastside Tigers Hockey
• Willoughby Baseball
• Berkshire Badgers
• St Anselm
• Barons
• Kirtland
• Wildcats
• Gilmour Academy
• Twinsburg Football
• Hudson Baseball Association
• Riverside Baseball Club
• Eastlake Baseball
• Riverside Youth Soccer
• Hudson Kiwanis Baseball
• Chardon Rec Soccer
• Mayfield Wildcats
• Prestige Gymnastics
• Mentor Marlins Swim Team
• Willoughby
• Intensity Synchronized Skating
• Emeth Gymnastics
• West Geauga Wolverines
• Solon Stampede
• Winterhurst Hockey
• Aurora Baseball
• Solon Runners Basketball
• Shaker Heights Hockey
• Mentor High School
• Thunderbolts Baseball Club (Willowick)
• Mentor Cardinals
• Panthers Fastpitch
• Mentor Wrestling
• OGI Gymnastics
• Team Ohio
• LCX Baseball
• Strongsville Hockey
• North Canton Girls Lacrosse
• Twinsburg
• Kirtland Youth Soccer
• Mentor Youth Lacrosse

04 · What People Say

Word gets around.

“Best sports photography, period. I have had many team photos of my child through the years and always the same boring, lined up, sitting on an aluminum bench with no distinction whatsoever. Lake Photo style is so professional looking it is as if your child was photographed for Sports Illustrated. Thank you. Bravo, good luck, I hope you start taking all sports.”

“We've used Lake for years with Mayfield Wildcat Youth Football and Cheer. They cut parents being present from 4–5 hours down to one hour max per squad. The kids don't have to stay for a big team shot. They take their faces and digitally build the team photo. With 250+ kids, we've gotten so much positive feedback as a club. 5 stars without a doubt.”

“We LOVED having you! Amazing staff, pictures and composites! I can't say enough great things about the creativity and quality of our final pictures! Highly recommend for sports photography!”

“Joe personally took the time to call me, listened, and truly went above and beyond. It's rare to find a business that takes such pride in providing an exceptional customer experience. My son's baseball pictures turned out absolutely amazing, and we couldn't be happier.”

“Very professional, very efficient and does great quality work. He has always been there for our school, WG High School, even when we were in a pinch for time. He was able to get us an appointment for our wrestling team and got us their banners in time for senior night. I highly recommend Lake Photography.”

“Amazing! So helpful and beyond accommodating! I missed team photo day and Lake Photography cleaned up all the tears and went above and beyond to schedule a makeup session, and then reschedule when we had to cancel for a rehearsal! He made her feel so special!! Highly recommend!!”

“Simply the best!!! Sean is amazing! Cutting edge stuff, personable and eager to please! More leagues and teams out there should start using Lake Photography.”

“I'm so excited every single time I get proofs. I can never choose just one. They check for happy faces and open eyes, and pay attention to little details like making sure the logo on a ball is upright. I love that they do a team photo collage, so no one ends up looking mediocre.”

“The staff was extremely friendly and amazing with the kids. Other kids from her team were in line around us, and the photographer said, 'no, we need to respect their time.' That means the world to a busy mom.”

05 · Posing & Attention

Big on the small stuff.

Every athlete gets a posing assistant and a photographer focused only on them. We catch the stuff parents notice in the car on the way home, a drawstring hanging out, hair in the eyes, a jersey that came untucked, and we fix it right at the station.

We also know what game-ready looks like in every sport we shoot, from a quarterback's fingers on the laces to a gymnast's pointed toes. Whatever your athletes play, the images come back looking right for the sport.

05 · Production & Creative, In-House

Every pixel, in our studio.

We're a composite studio, meaning every image is built digitally in-house. We can create any look, branded to your team, in any style, from clean realism to heavily stylized and surreal. The smudge on a cheek, blue Gatorade lips, glare off the glasses, all of it gone before the gallery opens. And since everything happens under one roof, we can fix just about anything fast.

06 · The Work

The work.

07 · The Team Photo

The team photo, without the wait.

Families line up for their athlete's turn, and the minute their athlete is done they can head out. Nobody hangs around for a group shot. Every athlete is photographed in the same controlled light at the shoot, and we build the team photo from those frames. Nobody with their eyes closed, nobody making a funny face, and no waiting around while we lay everybody out.

08 · The Product Line

Digitals, prints, and the fun stuff.

A range of pre-packaged bundles and a la carte options, from digital downloads to prints, magnets, and keepsakes.

Share it

Digital Downloads

Frame it

Professional Prints

Take it everywhere

The Fun Stuff

For the Coaches

Coaches make seasons happen.

Printed in Cleveland by NEO Pro Imaging.

Every print, magnet, and plaque comes off the presses at NEO Pro Imaging, our professional print lab right here in Northeast Ohio. Pro-grade color, pro-grade paper, no mail-order mystery lab.

09 · How It Works

Photo day, start to finish.

Seven steps. You own the first one, we carry the rest.

Step 01

Book the date

Fifteen minutes with your organizers. We lock the date, the venue, and what your program wants out of photo day. It costs your program nothing to book us.

Step 02

Your roster becomes the plan

Send the roster once and we build the whole day off it. A block-by-block schedule around your games and practices, and every athlete already in our system before anyone steps in front of a camera.

Step 03

Families hear from us, not you

Times, what to wear, what if we miss it. We send the reminders and answer every question, so nothing lands on your organizers.

Step 04

Photo day runs

One to four stations scaled to your roster, a posing assistant working with every athlete, 2.5 to 3 minutes in the bay. Athletes check in, get photographed in controlled studio light, and head out.

Step 05

Makeup day catches everyone

A scheduled makeup date is on the calendar from day one, plus private studio sessions for anyone who misses both. Nobody gets left out of the gallery.

Step 06

Our studio goes to work

Every frame retouched, every athlete composited, every team photo built, all in-house. Nothing ships until it looks right.

Step 07

Galleries open, families order

Private per-athlete galleries land 10 to 14 days after makeup day. Families see finished artwork first, buy what they love, and every support question comes to us.

10 · What You Hand Off

You can sit back and watch it run.

Photo day goes smooth from the first athlete to the last, parents leave happy, and your organizers never have to field a single question. You don't have to manage it, and honestly you don't even have to show up. All we really need is someone to unlock the door.

The schedule

We build the block-by-block plan off your roster with your input and run it on the day, so nobody's standing around wondering where to go.

Every parent question

What time, what to wear, what if we miss it. Those emails and calls come to us, not your organizers.

Communication & delivery

Reminders, gallery links, and answers to every question. We send it, and we follow up with the families who need a nudge.

Start to finish

Editing, retouching, galleries, prints and products, all handled and shipped without your organizers lifting a finger.

11 · How The Day Runs

Stations that scale to your size.

• 1–4 Camera stations and photographers, sized to your roster
• 2.5–3 min Per athlete in the bay, start to finish
• 1 day Whole roster through, small club or several hundred athletes
• 0 Hours of it your organizers have to manage
• Posing assistants at every station
• A coordinator working the room all day
• A crew that's been at this long enough to get a nervous athlete loosened up in about thirty seconds

We build the block schedule with you, off your roster count. If your teams have games that day we work around them, and if there are practice times to protect we plan around those too. The goal is a day that fits your calendar, not one you have to bend around ours.

12 · What We Need From Your Coordinator

Five asks. We carry the rest.

Everything else on this page is ours to run, and none of it costs your program a dime. Your photo-day coordinator owns exactly five things.

Ask One

An accurate, current roster.

Parent contact info, ideally both parents. Two inboxes per athlete means nobody misses gallery launch.

Ask Two

Scheduling help.

Work the time blocks around your program's availability with us.

Ask Three

A makeup day on the calendar.

One scheduled date, plus private studio sessions for anyone who misses both.

Ask Four

A few post-shoot nudges.

A social post, a newsletter mention, a heads-up when galleries open.

Ask Five

A venue with room to work.

A gym, a community center, a school cafeteria, anywhere big enough for your athletes and our gear. It's the one thing only you can provide.

13 · Support

Everything is figure-out-able.

Late adds to the roster, a misspelled name, an athlete who switches teams, a family that signs up the night before. That's on us, not your organizers. Parents email us, not you, and we get back to them quick. Name changes, late adds, corrections, all handled by us. Your program never touches a support ticket, and we haven't hit a photo-day problem yet we couldn't sort out.

14 · Data & Trust

Youth athlete photos. Handled seriously.

You're handing us a roster of young athletes, their parents' contact information, and other sensitive data. We make sure it's protected. Here's how.

Secure galleries on GotPhoto

Family galleries live on GotPhoto, our secure gallery and ordering platform. GotPhoto holds an independent SOC 2 Type 2 report and is GDPR-compliant. The details are public in their Trust Center.

• SOC 2 Type 2 · via GotPhoto
• GDPR Compliant · via GotPhoto

Vetted for your building

The people photographing your athletes are our core team, not day-hire strangers. You see the same faces season after season, and several of our team members are background-checked and SafeSport certified.

• Background-Checked Team Members
• SafeSport Certified Team Members

Your roster stays a roster

Roster and contact data live in access-controlled systems, used only by the team running your photo day and only to run it and deliver galleries. Every athlete's gallery is private to their family.

• Access-Controlled Contact Data
• Private Per-Athlete Galleries
• No Data Resale, Ever

SOC 2 and GDPR compliance are held by GotPhoto, the platform that hosts and processes gallery data. Questions about any of it? Ask us and we'll walk you through exactly how the data flows.

Ready when your program is.

Give us fifteen minutes and we'll walk your organizers through all of it. Any sport, any number of athletes, every season.

Book Now

info@lake-photography.com

440-666-5980