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Category: Sports
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US Presswire Needs More Photogs … To Shoot For Peanuts – PDNPulse
There’s been a lot of talk lately about photographers losing jobs to others who will work for less and photographers who work for free.
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Football shooters’ favourite photographs
Photo by Monte Fresco MBE – Daily Mirror, EnglandAs Europe’s top footballing nations prepare to battle it out in the EURO 2008 tournament CPN’s John McDermott spoke to the world’s best football photographers to find out which pictures from their careers are their personal favourites and why. In part one of this two-part article seven top football shooters select the best images they’ve ever taken.
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Sports Shooter Academy Boot Camp Sept. 5 & 6, 2008
The next coolest photography event of the year will be in Southern California this Fall as the Sports Shooter Academy Boot Camp returns September 5 & 6, 2008.
The Boot Camp is a two-day hands-on, shooting education program with a different emphasis each day. Participants can register for single day or attend both days.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Gallery does justice to great Champions League soccer final
The New York Times features a gallery of images from the UEFA (Union of European Football Association) between Manchester United and Chelsea played on a rain-soaked field in Moscow yesterday. After playing to a 1-1 draw in regulation time and two 15-minute overtime periods, Manchester United finally won on penalty kicks in this emotionally-charged contest.
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Wired at the Preakness Stakes | Reuters.com
With a cut-off time of 10am before the first race of the day, we set up five remote cameras under the inside rail of the track, and another on an observation post beyond the finish line with a high angle general view of the end of the race. Putting in place the gear – five EOS-1D Mark II cameras, an assortment of lenses from 16mm to 200mm, and their little mounting plates was a breeze, about 5 minutes in total, compared to the next step – getting them all to work!
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Photographer pierced by javelin but keeps shooting
Ryan McGeeney served seven years in the Marines, including a six-month deployment in Afghanistan, but 10 minutes of photographing the state high school track championships proved to be more dangerous to him.
Hours after his leg was pierced by a javelin at BYU’s Clarence Robison track stadium, McGeeney was fortunate to be able to appreciate the irony.
The Standard-Examiner photographer was struck below the knee by a javelin while shooting the discus event shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday, delaying the events while an ambulance pulled onto the track to take him to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center.
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Heeeere’s Johnny – www.arizonahighways.com
“How do I become a working photographer, and where do I get started?” I get asked that a lot. Turns out, there are as many answers as there are professional photographers. Here’s how John did it. Not John Doe, but John W. McDonough, one of the premier staff photographers at Sports Illustrated.
If you’re not familiar with his name, you know his work. For more than 25 years, “Johnny Mac’s” photography has graced the pages of SI (including 70-some covers), each one depicting his vision, dedication and talent. From Super Bowls and Final Fours to the Olympics and the World Series, he’s lived a sports shooter’s dream. And it all began here in Arizona. Sort of.
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Review: 'Athlete' by Walter Iooss
by Brad ManginI was sitting in Finnegan’s Wake, one of my favorite bars in San Francisco with my friend Grover last month when my cell phone began making noise. I was getting a text message from Walter Iooss: “Where can I send you my new book for you to review?”
At this point in the evening, I must confess, I had consumed a few too many beers, so my first thought was that Walter had made a mistake and wanted to send an editor his new portfolio. I texted him back some smart ass remark about being drunk, probably accusing him of the same, and closed the phone, laughing.
A few minutes later, it went off again.
“For SportsShooter.com you wino! I’m sober and going to bed,” Walter said.
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The Wild Weird World of Sports: Urban Warfare
Being weird is really trendy in the entire Pacific NW right now. Glad I don’t have to travel all the time to Seattle – Portland is nearly on par.
After some confusion (the 1st tee was changed at the last second… ???), I found the group of about two dozen golfers roaming the “greens” in North Portland.
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Indian Premier League Cricket boycotted | Copyright Action
Earlier this month the Indian Premier League drew much heat for attempting to impose accreditation terms on photographers that required all material shot to be uploaded to IPL’s webserver, for their free use forever.
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Detrick Wins Top Honors in Sports Shooter Newsletter Annual Contest
Chris Detrick’s photograph of a Pepperdine University basketball player gouging the eyes of an opponent, won top honors in the Sports Shooter Newsletter Annual Contest.
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Tension Over Sports Blogging – New York Times
The dispute has grown lately between the press and organized sports over issues like how reporters cover teams, who owns the rights to photographs, audio and video that journalists gather at sports events, and whether someone who writes only blogs should be given access to the locker room.
The explosion of new media, especially with regard to advertising income, has made competitors out of two traditional allies — news media and professional sports.
At the heart of the issue, which people on both sides alternately describe as a commercial dispute and a First Amendment fight, is a simple question: Who owns sports coverage?
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Trade Secrets: A little help from my friends.
Photo by Jamie Squire / Getty Images
Ryan Newman, driver of the #12 Alltel Dodge, celebrates in victory lane after winning the 50th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 17, 2008 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
It is rare these days in the individualistic field of sports photography that photographers collaborate, rather than compete, to come up with exceptional images. While photographing this year’s Daytona 500, I was fortunate enough to come away with a truly magnificent image… with a little help from my friends.Check it out here.
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The Season – A look at Chicago through lens
I believe that there are two camps of philosophy when it comes to sports photography.
One side likes action photos and the other prefers reaction shots.
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Thirty Years Between Dates: Behind The Scenes With Cal State Fullerton's Trip To The Big Dance
Matt Brown is the team photographer for Cal State Fullerton. Thirty years ago the Titans were the darling of the NCAA Tournament, making an improbably march to the Sweet 16. He accompanied the team to their 1st Round game against Wisconsin in the Omaha Regional
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The Season – A look at Chicago through lens | Chicago Tribune | Blog
By the end of the year, a trio of promising juniors had emerged- Kevin Davis, Sean LIggett and Chris Dillard- and Coach Nelson, who worked tirelessly to teach not only basketball skills but life lessons as well, had the Titans pointed in the right direction for next year.
Throughout the entire campaign, I was quite impressed with the way Lamont Nelson went about his business as coach and mentor. Nelson, who drove in daily from Bolingbrook for practices and games, was tough but fair and always put the team before any one individual.
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PDN – Baseball Backs Down From Photo Gallery Ban
Talks between news agencies and Major League Baseball appear to be moving toward a compromise about new credentialing guidelines, according to people on both sides of negotiations.
MLB has backed down from a ban on all online galleries of baseball game photos. Under a proposed revision to the rules, news agencies that regularly cover a team will be able to post photo galleries of up to 15 photos a day. Exceptions would be made in some cases, such as photo galleries connected directly to a story and galleries covering special events or historic milestones.
John Cherwa, an Orlando Sentinel editor and sports coordinator for the Tribune newspaper chain, called the change “a big and gracious concession on their part.”Check it out here.
