To find out what makes the best basketball photos, LightBox spoke with Marguerite Schropp Lucarelli, a picture editor at Sports Illustrated.
Link: What Makes a Great Basketball Picture? A View of the NBA Finals from Sports Illustrated – LightBox
I had the day off, but the Timbers were playing DC United in a day game. I took the opportunity to load up the Holga and Hasselbad with film. I haven’t had the five rolls of 12o processed yet. I also had the 5D Mark II around my neck with a 50/1.2 in addition to the film cameras.
Link: Timbers and a 50mm » Mark, Even, Hasselbad, Holga, United, Timbers » Thomas Boyd Photography
In 20 or 30 or 50 years, I want to look back at a sports photo and see what the scene looked like not just two faces and a ball.
For seven decades Rich Clarkson has had a front row seat to sporting history and through his eyes–or more precisely, through his camera lens–he has shaped the way the rest of us remember many of the game’s greatest moments. Clarkson has photographed all the greats. His photos have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated 33 times, on the pages of Time and Life magazines, and as the cover art of countless books. Here Clarkson shows some of his favorite images and tells the story behind each one.
There are times when friends ask what I’m doing, I tell them and find myself laughing as they process what I just said:
“Yeah, I’m going to Québec to photograph downhill ice skating.”
This is a selection of some of the outstanding work among the entries for the 2010 SJA British Sports Photograqphy Awards, sponsored by UK Sport.
Link: Page 2 « 2010 SJA British Sports Photography Awards « Sports Journalists’ Association
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Of this series, ‘The Roughriders’, he writes, ‘In late November 2009 I traveled to Calgary to work on a special project for The Canadian Football League. The project was to shoot portraits of fans just prior to the start of the 97th Grey Cup at McMahon Stadium.