Category: Sports
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Olympic Photo "Dream Team" – PDNPulse
Newsweek has announced that photographers Vincent Laforet, Donald Miralle and Mike Powell will be on exclusive assignment for the magazine to cover the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Check it out here.
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Credential Dispute Sparks Editors Meeting With MLB
A group of top news and sports editors is planning to meet with Major League Baseball this week to discuss a string of new restrictions on media credentials that editors contend are an unfair limitation on Web-related reporting. The new restrictions, which take effect later this month when the 2008 season begins, include: a 72-hour…
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CapeCodTimes.com – From Marconi to multimediabsb
One video in particular caught the attention of the Red Sox. On “picture day,” when players wear home whites and have official photos taken, some Sox are asked to cut public service announcements. Papelbon was one such player. Papelbon’s PSA was in Spanish, which proved difficult for the closer. He was struggling and swearing, getting…
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The F STOP » Professional Photographers Discuss Their Craft » Garry Simpson
restrictions abounded in the Nike shoot starring England striker Wayne Rooney. Garry Simpson and his crew shot from a nearby railyard and lit the shoot with the assistance of a production company, who helped set up a 40′ x 30′ lighting rig suspended to a crane and weighed down with four heavy sandbags. The rig…
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Media and Major League Baseball in New Photo Dispute
Outlets including The Associated Press and Sports Illustrated, and groups including the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE), are asking MLB to change the credentialing terms for the upcoming baseball season. This is the latest in a series of disputes between the press and sports leagues, which are increasingly…
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Leading Off: The February Death March, The Dance and Teamwork
Robert Hanashiro: February 2008 began with the Super Bowl, then slide into the heart of Awards Season: The Grammys and the Academy Awards and then tossed on top of that, a trip to Louisiana for the annual NBA All Star Weekend. Check it out here.
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NPPA Objects To Major League Baseball's Credential Terms
The National Press Photographers Association today delivered a letter to Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. “Bud” Selig objecting to new restrictions that are in the 2008 credential application photographers and news organizations must submit in order to cover MLB games, workouts, activities, and events. “The historic and statistical nature of baseball requires that its…
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A ‘processor’ at the Australian Open – Reuters Photographers
As the pictures processor in the team covering the Australian Open tennis tournament, it is my job to help picture editor Petar Kujundzic and our team of photographers – Tim Wimborne, Darren Whiteside, Mick Tsikas, Steve Holland and Stuart Milligan, get their pictures to the Singapore desk quickly with accurate captions. That sounds easy on paper – right?…
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Illinois Photographers Can Shoot Championships Without Signing Waivers
A representative of the Illinois Press Association today told IPA members that the Illinois High School Association will allow photographers with valid press credentials to have access to the floor at the girls state basketball finals in Bloomington this weekend without being required to sign IHSA’s waivers or releases. Check it out here.
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Take 10 with 'chase shooter Tod Marks – Fauquier Times
When photographer Tod Marks first entered into the steeplechase arena most of the veteran media wanted to know, “Who’s the new guy?” They soon found that he was hardly new to the world of horse racing. In fact, he had covered some of the greatest flat races in the last several decades and that hands-on…
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Best Seat in the House | Saturday Went Swimmingly | Seattle Times Newspaper Blog
: Was assigned to shoot the Boys Class 3A State Swim Meet this past weekend. As you’ve heard me say many time, high school sports are just such a kick to witness. There is true passion for sport, and there is little of the jadedness that comes with college and pro sports. Check it out…
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Planning to Cover Baseball's Opening Day? Read On…. – Visual Leadership
under no circumstances may Bearer display any more than seven still pictures or photographs of any Game at any time regardless of whether Bearer obtained such pictures or photographs at the Game; (ii) unless such still pictures or photographs of any Game are displayed in connection with an article about or summary of such Game,…
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The IHSA … and photography from state finals — ChicagoSports.com
The Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com and ChicagoSports.com will not publish news photographs of this weekend’s girls gymnastics and wrestling state finals because of a legal challenge the Tribune, the Illinois Press Association and other state newspapers have filed against the Illinois High School Association. Check it out here.
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The Wild Weird World of Sports: Wrestling With Good Photo Ops
: A fun, weird, extended photo trip started nearly a month ago with an unlikely beginning: midget wrestling. Check it out here.
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Chicago Reader | Hot Type | Shooting for Dollars: The fight over photo rights to high school sporting events involves more than the First Amendment.
: Lockport came from six runs down to beat Oak Park 8-6, and Banks headed onto the field to take the “jubilation shot”—the photo of ecstatic teenagers hugging and tumbling and screaming. It’s the shot that goes on page one of tomorrow’s paper and into the photo albums of every player on the team. But…
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Leading Off: It was cold!
: How cold was it? Cold enough to pop both of the lenses out of my glasses. Cold enough to freeze my breath on the camera viewfinder. Cold enough to wear not one, but two sets of long underwear. (Expedition weight no less!) Cold enough for Peter Miller to go through a whole box of…
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PJStar.com – Journal Star News Story
: No, this dispute is not about high commerce. It is instead about principle. We believe it is within our absolute right to cover, publish and, yes, occasionally even sell, content that we create – particularly from highly public events involving tax-supported institutions and occurring at taxpayer-owned venues. It is unfortunate that we are at…
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Illinois Battle Continues: After Lawsuits, Now Comes Legislation
: Illinois lawmakers have joined in the fight over whether the Illinois High School Association can prevent newspaper photographers from covering public school academic and sporting championship events games, and whether they can regulate the secondary use of photographs and videos that come from the events. A new state law proposed this week comes in…
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The Wild Weird World of Sports: Past & Present
Check it out: : The Wild Weird World of Sports: Past & Present Photography, as in art, is totally subjective. I’ve spent much of 2007 trying to figure out what I want to tell visually, what interests me. That doesn’t always translate into contest wins. Whatever. I had many people I truly respect look over…
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My LIfe at f/22: 2007 Pictures of the Year – Chris Detrick
My LIfe at f/22: 2007 Pictures of the Year.: “With the advent of contest season, I have been reviewing and editing my pictures from the past year. I am not very eloquent when it comes to talking about photography, but if you are interested, have a look at the following slide show.”