Category: Sports

  • Brian Finke: LSU football team

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    Link: Brian Finke: LSU football team | Le Journal de la Photographie The LSU football team, also known as the Fighting Tigers, are the center of much student social life. As is the case with most state universities, football is absolutely huge, and the games serve to bring together the entire campus. Brian Finke’s bright,…

  • The 2013 Dakar Rally

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    The 2013 Dakar Rally via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/01/the-2013-dakar-rally/100441/ Racers in the 34th annual Dakar Rally are nearing the finish line in Santiago, Chile. The winners are set to arrive on Sunday, January 20, after racing more than 8,500 km (5,280 mi) in 14 stages, across unforgiving territory in Peru, Argentina, and Chile. More than 450…

  • go irish and/or roll tide

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    Link: go irish and/or roll tide | Redlights and Redeyes  I sat there after the first half with Alabama up several touchdowns up on Notre Dame and ate a terrible hot dog in a media room where all the photographers just looked depressed.  All of the excitement, the adrenaline, and preparedness was sucked right out…

  • The Onion’s Finest Sports Photojournalism Of 2012

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    Link: The Onion’s Finest Sports Photojournalism Of 2012 | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

  • Best of 2012 | Sports

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    Link: Maryland Photographer Patrick Smith || Photoblog || Patrick@PatrickSmithPhotos.Com: Best of 2012 | Sports Every assignment teaches me something new, but it’s not until the end of the year that I can comb through everything I’ve photographed and reflect. I’m continually grateful for my editors, new clients for instilling trust in my vision to deliver…

  • The Year in Pictures: Sports

    The Year in Pictures: Sports

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    The Images of 2012: Sports From the Brooklyn Nets to the Olympics, Sandy’s disruptions to the Sandusky case, the year offered plenty of compelling sports stories. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/the-images-of-2012-sports/ In his series of carefully composed black-and-white images that make up “La Famille,” the French photographer Alain Laboile has captured a sense of youthful freedom…

  • Playoff Photo Highlights From a Pro’s Insta Feed as World Series Approaches

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    Playoff Photo Highlights From a Pro’s Insta Feed as World Series Approaches Brad Mangin has quickly become the king of the baseball Instagram. A veteran sports photographer, he’s been lighting up Insta with snappies from the nine Bay Area playoff games with his iPhone, which he says has become one of his favorite cameras. via…

  • How Getty photographer captured controversial NFL call at end of Packers, Seahawks game

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    Link: How Getty photographer captured controversial NFL call at end of Packers, Seahawks game | Poynter. “The majority of football pictures, or really any sport pictures, tend to be tight action pictures. But the really memorable and definable moments tend to be wider shots that show some context,” Greule said. “I think they clue the…

  • 2012 Summer Olympics – A collection of remembrances

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    Link: 2012 Summer Olympics – Nhat Meyer Of this whole cool scene, my favorite moment was when we were all taking cellphone pictures at the same time of the divers entering the water. I was thinking – “I’m taking cellphone pictures with Kluetmeier and Burnett, how cool is that!” Link: 2012 Summer Olympics – Al…

  • 2012 London Olympics: The Final Week

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    Link: 2012 London Olympics: The Final Week – In Focus – The Atlantic The 2012 Summer Olympics come to their conclusion this weekend, and the 10,000 athletes from 200 national Olympic committees around the globe who have gathered in London for the 17-day event will soon be returning home. Collected here are some small glimpses…

  • Chang W. Lee Photographs the London Olympics

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    Link: Chang W. Lee Photographs the London Olympics – NYTimes.com Making a different picture is one thing, but making a great picture is another. You can use techniques like slow shutter speeds that will make photos look different, but the best pictures are always about the human story. For me, the best picture doesn’t necessarily…

  • Binoculars and iPhone Give Pro Cameras Stiff Competition at Olympics

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    Link: Binoculars and iPhone Give Pro Cameras Stiff Competition at Olympics | Raw File | Wired.com This year Dan Chung, a staff photographer with The Guardian in England, decided to scale back. All he’s using to document the games are three iPhones, a set of binoculars and some third-party iPhone lenses.

  • The 2012 Tour de France, Part 2 of 2

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    Link: The 2012 Tour de France, Part 2 of 2 – In Focus – The Atlantic The 99th Tour de France cycling race began on July 1, as 22 teams of nine riders raced through Belgium, Switzerland and France. The entire tour covered a distance of 3,497 km (2,173 mi). Sky Procycling rider Bradley Wiggins…

  • TIME Olympic Covers Feature Women Athletes as . . . Athletes

    TIME Olympic Covers Feature Women Athletes as . . . Athletes

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    TIME Olympic Covers Feature Women Athletes as . . . Athletes – Reading The Pictures Distinctive for depicting America’s female Olympic athletes as strong, powerful and individual, TIME’s Olympic covers are notable just for portraying the women as athletes. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/07/time-olympic-covers-feature-women-athletes-as-athletes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 The aesthetics of these photos are notable for another reason as…

  • How I Made Instagram Images That Were Good Enough for Sports Illustrated

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    Link: Baseball Stock Photography: How I Made Instagram Images That Were Good Enough for Sports Illustrated :: Mangin Photography Archive The big news was leaked on Mashable last night that Sports Illustrated is publishing 18 of my baseball iPhone Instagrams spread out over three Leading Off double trucks (6 pages) in the magazine this week.…

  • The Tour de France Turns 99

    The Tour de France Turns 99

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    The Tour de France Turns Ninety-nine This Saturday, a hundred and ninety-eight cyclists are expected to start the ninety-ninth edition of the Tour de France. The three-week race will cover … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/06/tour-de-france-turns-99.html?currentPage=all To celebrate this year’s Grand Départ, I’ve compiled a selection of vintage Tour de France photos and facts for…

  • lebron, wade, and i

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    Link: Redlights and Redeyes So LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and I were there together hanging out and….well, there really isn’t going to be a time I get to say that again, so I’m going to take advantage now. I was lucky enough to be part of the huge team that the fine folks at ESPN…

  • Confessions of a Veteran Spring Training Photographer

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    Confessions of a Veteran Spring Training Photographer Guest blogger Brad Mangin details his 20 years covering spring training. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/03/confessions-of-a-spring-training-veteran-photog/all/1 There I was, loaded down with gear and standing on the grassy field of Scottsdale Stadium for the first time. I had a camera bag full of Canon film cameras, grainy Kodak Ektapress color…

  • Doug Mills Returns to the Super Bowl on Sunday

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    Link: Lens This weekend, Doug Mills will be in a familiar spot: on the sidelines of the Super Bowl. As a seasoned sports photographer — first with The Associated Press and now with The Times — he is the envy of the masses who have to watch from their La-Z-Boy recliners.

  • 107 Pictures of the Portland Timbers Inaugural Season

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    Thomas Boyd I selected 107 of my favorite images from the 2011 inaugural season. I shot 24,521 images on 31 total assignments from January to October.