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Media Day with Florida Gators Spirit Teams

Photo creation day for the 2024-25 Season

By Matt Pendleton Photography

August 17^th, 2024

2024-2025 Gators Spirit Teams

The Florida Gators Creative Team reached out for assistance with their 2023-24 Florida Gators Spirit Teams photo shoot. I love working with the Gators especially on media day (or content creation) shoots.

This photo shoot featured three teams: cheerleaders, mascots, and dance. It was shot over one day on the campus of the University of Florida.

Scroll down to go behind-the-scenes and see my favorite photos from the shoot. Make sure to tap LIKE in the top right to show the visual story some love.

Media Day with Florida Gators Spirit Teams

BTS of the Setup

The Florida Gators Creative Team uses the UF Women's Club building adjacent to the Basketball Practice Complex for most of their team content creation day photo shoots. The setup consists of the following:

Three stations: two with white seamless backdrop for content creation and one with a grey seamless for headshots.
The Gators use Paul Buff strobes with PocketWizard triggers for their photo shoots which consists of a 4-light setup: two for background and two for primary lighting
Laptops at each station to process, identify, and tag all photos as they're shot

The Mascots

Most of the mascots were shot on the other backdrop with photographer Trenton Bardi. But I got a few of the mascots and their handlers.

The Dazzlers

The Cheerleaders

Coaches

Thank you, Florida Gators!

I really appreciate the entire Florida Gators Creative Team for bringing me to help with the 2024-25 Florida Gators Spirit Media and Content Creation Day. I had a blast working with all the student-athletes, coaches, and Gators Creative students.