Tuesday 18 May 2010

Targets set for this week

Make a list of sports in the local area that you might be able to photograph.

look at sport photography books and find techniques that you like/dislike. ( + evidence )

Get pictures of those photographers I wrote about earlier (their work)

Thursday 6 May 2010

Research Famous Sport Photographers

I have looked at work / pictures by bob martin. He is an amazing sport photographer and has risked his life many times in what he does. He has taken pictures of horses jumping over his head, motorbikes speeding right by him. He does this in all of a split second. I think some of his images have a possibility of being edited such as the sheep jumping, catching a Frisbee in a perfect landscape. It could be real, but it would have to of been really expensive to do this. His photography inspired me because his work is not just about capturing the image at the right second, it is about creating a dreamlike state where the picture looks to good to be real.
Here is a link to his website:
http://www.bobmartin.com/bob1.html
Here are a few images that he did:







Another Famous sport photographer is Dave Black. He has photographed images for practically every sport; football, basket ball, horse racing, ice skating. I think Dave black takes pictures of more suttle sports rather than rugby or contact sports. He has a more elegant but dark style as he is always using blues, red and blacks. I think he does this to make the person and sport stand out and make that be more of a focal point than the background or bright colours. It is only a little trick but creates a dramatic mood in the image. This is why his work caught my eye as his work is dark and unlike other artists in the fact of dull but empowering backgrounds.
Here is a link for his website:
http://www.daveblackphotography.com/sports-images/sports-classics.htm
Here a few of his images:














I have found a sport photographer called Adrian Myers. He has done many photographs and has a lot of published work; in newspapers, adverts and other mediums. His shots are again very different as his photos are all done in a studio with backgrounds and un-natural floors as you can see on the two below. His backgrounds are very over the top which also gives the perception that they are unreal. With the rugby image below he gets actors to do a series of tackles, picks the best one and edits it in photo shop. When I say edit I mean add a background and edit the image so it looks like the actor fits more into the picture. He inspired me because his pictures aren't about the sport so much, but about the editing that goes into it. The editing does work though as it creates a bigger impact on the sport, such as the man jumping below. It creates an illusion that he is jumping really high but this is just a picture for the background not actual Hawaiian trees.
Here is a link to this site:
http://www.adrianmyers.com/

Here is some of his work:








I found another man who does sport photography. He is only 16 and already done amazing photography for big publications such as twilight, famous musicians and others. The reason I have chose him is because he uses amazing Photo shop skills and some of these I could research and use these techniques and incorporate them in my photographs to create interesting effects. He is quite diverse when it comes to his work as he has done many styles as the above and also African images.

Here is a link to his website:












Tuesday 4 May 2010

Starting My epq (Plan)

Today I have made a plan and discussed with a lecturer about what I would like to do my EPQ on.
Here are my targets about my EPQ product that I have to do by next week:
  1. Find 3 successful sport photographers & research their work.
  2. Make a list of sports in the local area that you might be able to photograph.
  3. Choose some sport photography techniques that you would like to learn.
I will start to research these objectives in the follow mediums / places:
  • library
  • books
  • newspapers
  • internet
  • ask people I know / local practitioners