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, bold, graphic images expertly reflect the energy, enthusiasm, and often the absurdity of the events.
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 teams are taking part, pitting themselves against the elements, driving specialized off-road cars, trucks, motorcycles, and quadbikes. Below, I’ve gathered some of the best images I could find of this year’s race so far, and some of the challenges brought by recent heavy rainfall
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 of everyone. No hopes of a comeback. There were just a lot of shocked Notre Dame faces and chants of “Roll Tide!” Over. And over. And over
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 compelling images of each and every assignment. I cannot thank them enough and I’ll be forever grateful for each and every opportunity as long as I remain a freelancer.
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 through the exploits of his six children.
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 WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/instagraming-playoff-baseball/
Brad Mangin (@bmangin) 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.
“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 viewer into the meaning of the photograph. A photo that shows teammates going ballistic, and fans, and some of the stadium, signals that this was a special moment.”
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 Bello
If I had to be critical I would say it was with TV and not London. THEY WERE EVERYWHERE!!!! You could not swing a dead cat without running into a TV person getting in the way of your shot. It was comical!! Don’t get me wrong, the TV guys were just doing their jobs and were also very nice but it was crazy how fast they jumped into your frame after every race, or every jubo. I don’t know if it will ever go backwards. It just keeps getting worse.
Link: 2012 Summer Olympics – Bob Deutsch
never be shooting pans at 1/20th of a second when your USA runner gets tripped up and crashes right in front of you in a 1500 meter final.
Link: 2012 Summer Olympics – David Eulitt
It’s commonplace for me to zone into just getting the pictures and miss the whole experience of sport. The communal witnessing of athletic greatness. The Olympics, perhaps the last place where national pride is demonstrated so passionately. How can that not be magic?
Link: 2012 Summer Olympics – Peter Read Miller
It was only several days later when the print magazine came out that one of our writers buttonholed me in the hall of the MPC and said “did you shoot that fencing picture in Sports Illustrated’s Leading Off?” I nodded. “Awesome!” he replied.
Link: 2012 Summer Olympics – Lucy Nicholson
I also set up to seven remote cameras covering different lanes and distances past the finish line. My main camera and all the remote cameras were connected to a foot switch with XLR cables and also to a server with Ethernet cables. Editor Michael Leckel was able to send my first photo to clients three minutes after the start of the men’s 100 meters.
Link: 2012 Summer Olympics – John Leyba
I don’t think getting in really close with a wide-angle lens makes any better photo than using 70-200. Not only the stills but also the TV. crew too. During gymnastics, the women’s team just got swamped with cameras in their face after winning the gold. We all looked at each other from the side and just watched. No photo to be had. Oh well. Whatcha gonna do?
Link: 2012 Summer Olympics – Paul Kitagaki
With 1,700 accredited photographers it’s quite a challenge trying to make a great story telling image. Long hours, ok food, but you have great camaraderie with fellow colleagues from the states. Everybody is trying to working at their top form, capturing the best performance and emotions of the athletes.
Link: 2012 Summer Olympics – David Bergman
While I literally have to pull an all-nighter to get these done, it’s absolutely worth it. I’ve always preached about “separating yourself from the pack” by doing something different from all the other photographers. I didn’t want to go back to the Olympics and stand next to 500 other shooters, with all of us trying desperately to make a photo that was 5 percent better. But this is a niche that I’ve spent years working on and the hard work has paid off. At least until I figure out the next thing.
Link: 2012 Summer Olympics – Mike Blake
when it came to shooting the athletes and them performing, it became very obvious that TV has been intently watching what we do as photographers because they were pretty much always where we wanted to be.
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 of the final week of the games — moments of triumph, exhaustion, dejection, celebration, and much more. [55 photos]
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 have to be different. The Olympics is about enduring hardships for one goal, for that one moment
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.
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 of Great Britain became the first Briton ever to win the tour on Sunday, July 22. Gathered here are images from the second half of the 2012 Tour de France. [42 photos]
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 well. They draw the reader’s gaze to the female body without sexualizing it. Instead, women’s athleticism is featured. We are accustomed to seeing the chiseled musculature of male athletes in sports photography. Women, however, are more commonly sexualized, with shots of female athletes often indistinguishable from the gratuitous pictures of models and movie stars found in fashion layouts and men’s magazines.
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. This is an exciting development for a project that I started in February on the first day of spring training when I was on assignment for the magazine.
Brad Mangin
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 your cycling enjoyment.
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 the Magazine put together for their latest One Day, One Game series. The point is to give fans a glimpse into everything that it takes for one single game to be put on with vignettes from every angle imaginable. It was one of my most fun shooting days ever, and I don’t think I can really go back to “normal” access after this. Of course I will, but now will at least have a hard time wondering why I can come back into the locker room and photograph a player in the ice bath.
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 negative film and a heavy, brick-shaped Motorola cell phone
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.
