Official: few may photograph Formula-1 this year
There were speculations, but it wasn’t official yet. Now an announcement confirmed it: only a few journalists and photographerrs can work at the Formula-1 restart this year.
sports photography
This is how photographer dries rain soaked gear
Werk photo from the bathroom after a rainy match. This is how the gear of AFP photographer in Budapest Attila Kisbenedek is being dried after geetting soaked. He is currently covering the FIFA World Cup. Other than his official poctures published by the agency on his Instagram feed he lets a peek into his bathroom.
Getty photographers’ work at winter olympics
Getty Images is one of the biggest sports photography agencies and the main agency responsible for documenting the olympics. Like many other agencies they cover the games with dozens of photographers and a load of remote controlled cameras as well whenever it is possible to flood images all the time during the games.
Olympic skier crashed among photographers
This news is about a few days olt, but I had to include it on my blog. On the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Swiss skier Lara Gut fell and crashed into photographers shooting the event from the side of the race track.
Swimming world championships in numbers
I still had no chance to go through, cull and (properly) archive the photos of the Aquatics World Championships. Here comes the numbers of the World Championships and some GPS track logs like the ones I published before on Instagram – just because I like to draw ones like these while I’m wandering during work…
The most complete Olympic collection
Like I mentioned earlier in one of the posts about the trade secrets of the photographers working at the Olympics, some of the news and photo agencies can even publish around 2000 images a day, all of their photographers together probably made more than a million images during the games. Here I have a (far from complete) collection of their images.
Thousands of Olympic photos every day
Sports photography is mass production anyway, but especially at the Olympics that is the greatest of all photo mass productions. The events host the most and best sportsmen…
Shooting winter olympics is a tough job
I only follow the events of the winter olympics from home but I don’t envy those colleagues who work on site in Sochi. Well, of course I envy their photos, but the tiring hard work and lots of challenges they face there is something I’m not envy for. My blog surely would stop if I would be shooting there. It already happened some times when I had a more intense work at hand.
Thankfully this is not the case with Jeff Cable who keeps posting from Sochi letting a snaek peek behind the scenes with it.
Photographers talk about work at Super Bowl
I already wrote about the work at the largest football event of the world. This time they talk in a video letting us a sneek peak…
This is how Formula 1 pictures are made
Some of my readers asked me to write a behind the scenes post about photographing Formula1 at race track Hungaroring dolgozni.
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