I'm Marc Cepeda, but on the field most people know me as Casper.
I shoot action sports from as close to the moment as I can get: airsoft, paintball, moto, and anywhere else the game moves fast enough that the best parts are gone almost as soon as they happen.
That's what I'm trying to capture: the version of the day players usually only get to keep in their heads. The push through smoke. The slide into cover. The look before a move. The split second that felt loud when you were in it, but disappears once the game is over.
I've been around cameras since high school, and I came into airsoft after years of paintball and first-person shooters. Casper started as an old nickname, became a gamer tag, and eventually followed me onto the field. When I started bringing my camera out more than my gear, the name stuck there too.
I like staged portraits, but in-game action is different. It has movement, pressure, imperfection, and timing you can't recreate after the whistle. I shoot close because that's where those seconds live. Close enough to feel the pace, but careful not to become part of the play.
That is the Casper part of it: stay near the action, stay out of the way, and give players, teams, fields, and athletes images that feel the way the day actually felt.
