Week two task

Sports photography

This, the earliest photograph in “Who Shot Sports,” is the work of Hill and Adamson, regarded by Buckland as the greatest practitioners of the calotype “a paper negative that was ‘developed’ after a short exposure” which was invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1840.

Sport photojournalism photographers

Claudio Villa, Brad Mangin, Patrick Koenig, David Bergman, Will fox

Claudio Villa, Italy EURO 2022 photography

Photo by Neil Leifer

Photo by Bill Fraker

Challenges:

Correct lighting to get the right shot – if the lens is not correctly adjusted the camera could potentially not show a clean view thus ruining the shot

Getting the shot during fast paced sports – during fast paced sports like ice hockey where the puck moves quick and is very small it can be a challenge to keep track of it and get everything in shot

Getting a clean shot with everything the frame and in focus, shots often aren’t always about one person but also background shots and getting all of that in frame can be a challenge