April 5, 2017

How to make sure you get great action photos at Savage Race

Post by Sam Abbitt
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Savage Race offers free race photos for all runners. Read these tips to make sure you get amazing action photos at any Savage Race!

How to make sure you get good photos at Savage Race

1. Make sure you know where all photographers will be on the course! The official photographers will all wear bright yellow vests. You will receive an email before the event that details all of the photographer locations.

2. Always wear your race bib facing forwards, and make sure it is clean and visible.

3. Seek out the photographers and make sure they take your photo!

4. Write your bib number on your body using a body marking pen. (optional)


How to retrieve your photos

We take tens of thousands of participant photos at each event, so it takes several days for our staff to review and tag them all. Some of your photos might be immediately available after the event, but it is unlikely that all of your photos will be ready until Thursday.

There are two ways to download and share your photos. Option 1 is faster, and requires that you give an app share access to your Facebook account. Option 2 does not involve Facebook at all, but the photos will not be available as soon.

Option 1 – Pic2Go

  • This is the fastest way to access your photos
  • Photos appear and post to your Facebook page during the week as they are tagged by our team
  • This option requires a Facebook account
  • You must give the app permission to auto-post your photos to a Facebook audience: Public, Friends, Only Me, or select specific friends
  • If you select “Only Me”, you can delete photos you don’t want to share prior to publishing. After reviewing, click “Change to Shared Album” to publish your album
  • A link to use the Pic2Go platform to auto-share your race photos on Facebook will be sent to you after the event

Option 2 – High Resolution Downloads

  • This option does not require a Facebook account
  • Photos will only be available in the high-resolution download center after all tagging is complete
  • This option will be ready on Wednesday or Thursday following the race
  • A link to the high resolution download center will be sent to you after the event

How does photo tagging work?

We are able to tag pictures of you using a three part process: automatic bar code tagging, manual bib number tagging, and RFID tagging. These three methods are explained below.

  • Bar code tagging is an automatic process that tags your photos when the bar code printed on your race bib is visible. About half of the photos are tagged automatically using this system. More on how this works
  • Manual bib number tagging is a team of people scrolling through all of the photos and tagging them with the bib numbers they can see on their screen.
  • RFID tagging sends a time stamp each time a participant crosses over an RFID mat on the course. We have mats at all photo locations. These time stamps help our manual taggers find more photos for you.

5 Responses to How to make sure you get great action photos at Savage Race

  1. Chelsea Grainger says:
    May 12, 2017 at 3:26 am

    For the race on April 29th 2017 in Maryland there are only 4 obstacles with pictures posted. Will others but up at some point in time?

  2. Jana Allee says:
    May 19, 2017 at 4:19 pm

    There was a race photographer above the wheel world obstacle in Charlotte on May 13th but there are no pictures of that obdtacle. Is there any way to acquire those pics?

  3. Andrea says:
    October 20, 2017 at 6:19 pm

    For Dallas 2017 I know I got pictures taken at the lumberjack obstacle and I’m almost certain for wheel world as well. I ran with the volunteers starting a little after 2PM. There aren’t any pictures past 2:30PM for wheel world or past 1:30PM for Lumberjack. I thought they could have been maybe mixed up with an earlier time stamp but I looked through all of them and nothing. It is Friday after the race, so all pictures should be up.

  4. Jareysacaliz VillaMor says:
    November 13, 2017 at 6:08 pm

    Hi… I did Fl.on 11/11/17 bib number 4861 but when input that number I get pictures of someone else… Can this be corrected?

  5. Don Barr says:
    November 16, 2017 at 12:56 am

    Hi i did Fl on 11/11/17 bib number 304, my pictures are still not loaded, and i lost my bib at Colossus. Can they be found? Thanks… 9:40am wave.. Thanks again…