What does it take to cover the Olympic Games as a sports photographer? Here’s a 10-minute video titled “One Shot” that offers a behind-the-scenes look at
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2017/01/06/inside-look-photographing-olympic-games/
Here’s a 10-minute video titled “One Shot” that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Olympics from the photographers’ perspectives
“On the weekends they are superheroes or villains,” Ghent photographer Kevin Faingnaert says of Europe’s underground wrestlers, “during the week, they are postmen, carpenters and office employees.” The photographer remembers…
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/12/mysterious-world-underground-wrestling-europe/
“On the weekends they are superheroes or villains,” Ghent photographer Kevin Faingnaert says of Europe’s underground wrestlers, “during the week, they are postmen, carpenters and office employees.”
Vasiliy Kolotilov was so taken by American football in Russia that he immersed himself in its world, where an opening-day game might attract only a handful of spectators.
Vasiliy Kolotilov found out about an American football league in Russia where most people discover bizarre, out-of-the-ordinary things: the internet. After a bit of investigation, he pitched a piece on the Spartans — a local football team in Moscow — to a newspaper. In March, he attended some training sessions and published the article. But that wasn’t enough.
Legendary sports photographers reveal their favorite World Series memories
via TIME.com: http://time.com/best-world-series-photos/
Ahead of this year’s historic matchup, pitting the Chicago Cubs (last win: 1908) and the Cleveland Indians (1948), TIME asked sports photographers who covered the World Series throughout the years to select the images that moved them most.
And he’s just getting started
via Time: http://time.com/4523331/al-bello-sports-photography/
This summer alone Al Bello photographed the Belmont Stakes, the Olympics, the U.S. Open, and the Baseball playoffs
During his long career, David Turnley has dodged gunfire, shaken hands with world leaders, witnessed the toppling of regimes and won a Pulitzer Prize. But what has given him perspective, he said, are memories from an indelible part of his college years: a 1973 stint as a walk-on — along with his twin, Peter — on the University of Michigan’s storied football team.
What follows is a small sampling of the hundreds of racers that appeared out on the salt flats to see how fast their equipment can take them. It is hard to express the scale of the racing out here without some form of arial photography, so I have focused on the desolation of racing out here.
Over the two weeks of the games, I’ll be featuring some amazing images from recent Olympic events. Today’s entry encompasses gymnastics, BMX racing, water polo, beach volleyball, taekwondo, kayaking, women’s wrestling, and much more.
Over the two weeks
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/08/rio-2016-photos-from-days-11-through-13/496490/
Hundreds of photographers have gathered in Rio to follow the action in the Olympic arenas, swimming pools, racetracks, and more
“For someone to look around and have a good time, it’s mind-blowing.”
via Time: http://time.com/4452585/usain-bolt-2016-rio-olympics/
“I was carrying three remotes and my handheld camera,” Cameron Spencer tells TIME. “So when he was sprinting, I had four cameras firing,”
It may seem counterintuitive, but even a sports action photo can tell a story in a 1/1000th of a second, and the Rio Olympics men’s 200m butterfly final provided a perfect opportunity to analyze the role of not only the decisive moment, but decisive posit
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2016/08/what-is-the-best-michael-phelps-chad-le-clos-photo-hint-there-is-no-decisive-moment/
In the much anticipated rematch of the men’s 200m butterfly at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Chad le Clos spent much of his time playing mind games staring down Michael Phelps both in and out of the pool. He spent the moments before their semifinal race shadow boxing in front of Phelps, who responded with a meme-worthy #PhelpsFace death stare. So the narrative entering the finals was whether le Clos had awoken the sleeping giant, and would pay for his indiscretion. How could a single photo encapsulate that?
Drawing upon experience, instinct and visual virtuosity, Chang Lee elevates the art of sports photography to an Olympic-level event.
Being a top photographer at the Olympics takes meticulous planning, razor-sharp instincts, visual virtuosity and the ability to recognize drama – attributes that Chang Lee, a staff photographer for The New York Times, has in abundance. This week, he is in Rio de Janeiro covering his eighth Olympic Games. Despite that experience, he says he has found it more difficult to shoot each successive trip.
The Photo Brigade presents a special Olympic sports photography panel featuring sports shooter veterans who have collectively shot dozens of Olympic Games over the years.
via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2016/06/olympic-sports-photography-panel/
The Photo Brigade presents a special Olympic sports photography panel featuring sports shooter veterans who have collectively shot dozens of Olympic Games over the years. Gary Hershorn(Reuters/freelance), Julie Jacobson (Associated Press), Al Bello (Getty Sport), and Robert Deutsch (USA TODAY) talk with moderator Steve Fine (SI/NYT/Flipboard) about past experiences in covering previous games and what they think about the upcoming games Rio from a technology perspective, news perspective and sports perspective.
My goal, now – albeit pretty lofty – is to spend the next year trying to shoot every major sport’s biggest game with expired film. I’ve been buying lots of film off eBay, friends have been sending it to me (hint), and now I’ve accumulated rolls in varying speeds and ages (all the way back to the 60’s) to go after this thing. I don’t care if I make money off of it, for me this is a challenge, a way to recharge my thinking and to be honest just to have fun carrying around three clanky Nikon F series cameras around my neck.
In the category “Sports News” of the 12th edition of CHIPP (China International Press Photo Contest), four photographers were awarded. In the single image category, the first three prizes “Gold”, “Silver” and “Bronze” were awarded respectively to Sascha Fromm (Caught in the Nest), Daria Isaeva (Unlucky Champion) et David Ramos (Iron Man). One awardsof excellence were given to Matthias Schrader (Judging).
In the category stories of « Sports News » of the 12th edition of CHIPP (China International Press Photo Contest), four photographers were awarded. In the single image category, the first three prizes “Gold”, “Silver” and “Bronze” were awarded respectively to Simon Moricz-Sabjan (Street extreme exercises), Kirill Kudryavtsev (Dark Snow) and Alexey Filippov (Opposition). One award of excellence were given to Li Ga (The 53rd Table Tennis World Championship).
Sitting just feet from Kobe Bryant throughout his entire career, these renowned photographers have memories and perspective like no one else.
via ESPN.com: http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/15188880/kobe-bryant-most-iconic-memorable-photographs
Sitting just feet from Kobe Bryant throughout his entire career, these renowned photographers have memories and perspective like no one else.
Japanese women’s professional wrestling can be intense and brutal in the ring, while promoting fantasy elements to its mostly-male fan base.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/04/professional-womens-wrestling-in-japan/477357/
Reuters photographer Thomas Peter spent time recently getting to know professional wrestler Kris Hernandez, who fights in Japan under the name Kris Wolf. She became the first foreigner to work her way up into the world of Japanese women’s pro wrestling, as part of Tokyo promoter World Wonder Ring Stardom
Young wrestlers can look simultaneously haggard and phenomenally fit, as the photographer Ben Lowy captures in his closeup portraits from the 2016 college championships.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-faces-of-college-wrestlers
This constant training causes young wrestlers to look haggard but phenomenally fit, a contradiction that the photographer Ben Lowy captures in his post-match portraits from the weekend’s events
Basketball is nearly sacred in Indiana, where two photographers set out to document scores of gyms during events like basketball games and graduations.
“Indiana is known as a place where basketball is sort of like the sport,” said Michael E. Keating, a photographer. “It’s kind of like the religion. If basketball’s a religion, then the gymnasiums — they’re the places where people worship. They’re the churches, the temples.”
Legendary sports photographer Walter Iooss is one of three people to have photographed every Super Bowl along with John Biever and Mickey Palmer. This Sunday, he will photograph his 50th Super Bowl, but the streak might be in jeopardy due to the on-going
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2016/02/why-walter-iooss-streak-of-50-super-bowls-could-end/
Iooss is reportedly one of the many Sports Illustrated photographers who have refused to sign the new contract, but because he was previously assigned to photograph Super Bowl 50, he falls under the “legacy contract.” As it stands, no new assignments are being handed out to photographers until they sign the contract.