Olympic Photography Goes Amateur

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Olympic Photography Goes Amateur – A Photo Editor

The internet is buzzing about these Olympic portraits taken by Joe Klamar for AFP and Getty. Most of the talk is about how unprofessional they look with ripped seamless, rumpled flags and sinister lighting (Reddit thread here). I have to agree, but rather

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/07/02/olympic-photography-goes-amateur/

Unfortunately, I think the answer is more pedestrian: editors asleep at the switch treating an olympic portrait session like a flickr feed.