Because now anybody can publish, and anybody turns out to really mean “anybody.” That includes teams, leagues, athletic organizations, agents and athletes themselves – all those who used to speak through sportswriters. As a result, the rules of the game are swiftly being rewritten
Category: Sports
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Rules of the game change as sports journalists compete against teams they cover
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Perfect Landings: A New Angle on the Long Jump
LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/31/long-jump-by-pawel-kopczynski/#1
Photographer and picture editor Pawel Kopczynski of Reuters explains how a combination of astute planning and specially developed remote camera technology produced a compelling series of photographs from the World Athletics Championships in Seoul, South Korea.
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Feature: William B. Plowman goes underground
One day last fall, photojournalist William B. Plowman got a call from a friend, fellow photographer Nick Whalen. “He said, ‘you’re not gonna believe this,’” Plowman recalls, “and then he told me there’s this underground fight club in New York City.”
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Sports Photography: Breaking the waves
While mainstream sports photography has become blunted by the controlling instincts of administrators and the ubiquity of same-brand digital SLRs, a select band of shooters – often focused on “adrenalin” sports that offer greater co-operation and freedoms – are finding new perspectives on the action. Diane Smyth talks to six of the best.
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USA Track and Field Championships
I shot the USA Track and Field Championships over the course of four days in Eugene, Ore. June 23-26, 2011. The first three days I was on my own and on the final and most hectic day, Oregonian intern Tyler Tjomsland joined in. It seems like every other big meet I’ve shot, the weather has always been extreme. This year, we had perfect weather which makes a long meet much more tolerable and enjoyable. I always like seeing old friends from around the country like Bill Frakes, Laura Heald, Kirby Lee and whole Register-Guard crew.
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What Makes a Great Basketball Picture? A View of the NBA Finals from Sports Illustrated
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To find out what makes the best basketball photos, LightBox spoke with Marguerite Schropp Lucarelli, a picture editor at Sports Illustrated.
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Timbers and a 50mm
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
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giving game 7 context
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.
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Be Cool. Be Brave.
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.”
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SJA British Sports Photography Awards
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
via: duckrabbit
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Art & Photography: Ryan Enn Hughes | Feature Shoot
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.
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My Name Is Mud » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS
There are 3 themes that continue to reappear inside my weird sports bubble: costumes, horses and mud. Hey, I go where the pictures tell me.
And so that’s how I ended up in New England, photographing the annual World Championship Mud Bowl in Conway, New Hampshire
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MLB’s TagOramic Lets You Stare Into The Face Of Each And Every Fan At The World Series
MLB’s TagOramic Lets You Stare Into The Face Of Each And Every Fan At The World Series – TechCrunch
Were you lucky enough to attend one of the MLB playoff games this month? Then you’ll want to check out TagOramic, a nifty feature on MLB.com that was built to celebrate the Fall Classic. Over the course of the playoffs, MLB has taken some absolutely massi
via TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/mlbs-tagoramic-lets-you-stare-into-the-face-of-each-and-every-fan-at-the-world-series/
high enough resolution that you can zoom in and see each and every fan.
The site has also integrated support for Facebook Connect, so even if you didn’t get to attend one of the playoff games, you can sign in and see if any of your friends have been tagged in the photo. It sounds silly, but it’s surprisingly fun to see a shot of your friend mid-hot dog, surrounded by a sea of other fans
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The 10 Greatest World Series Photos of All Time – A Picture's Worth
It’s World Series time – so I thought I would ask my own personal baseball freak expert, Brad Mangin, about curating a little online gallery featuring the ten best World Series photos to have ever been taken.
Link: The 10 Greatest World Series Photos of All Time – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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Now Batting, for The New York Times, Chang W. Lee – NYTimes.com
Now Batting, for The New York Times
Chang W. Lee has learned that the best way to cover a critical moment in baseball is to see it even before the players do.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/now-batting-for-the-new-york-times/
Chang W. Lee, a staff photographer for The New York Times, aspires to a 1.000 average. “In the playoffs, you have to succeed 10 times out of 10,” said Mr. Lee, 42, who has covered all of the New York Yankees’ postseason games since 1996.
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Favre, Deadspin and the New Tawdry Journalism
When Salacious Is Irresistible
A blog paid for a lewd story about Brett Favre, and then mainstream outlets followed.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/business/media/18carr.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
In the last week, I’ve gotten a very clear view of two things — the male physique purported to belong to Brett Favre and the inner workings of modern media. I wish I could un-see both.
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The Online Photographer: Photographers: Banned
Photographers: Banned
Drawing by Chris Robinson In Britain, several newspapers have devised novel and innovative ways to protest a craven ban on photographers by a football (soccer) club (team). The club is refusing accreditation to any outside photographers “in a plain and…
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To protest the ban, one newspaper, the Plymouth Herald, didn’t use photographs at all in reporting a recent game—it used drawings