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"The End of an Era" The Golden Age of Sports Photography
Nick Turchiaro, Photographer
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Brampton | Ontario | Canada | Posted: 2:22 PM on 02.09.11 |
->> Hello Everyone,
I just thought I would let everyone know about an article that was written by Eileen Langsley titled "The End of an Era" in the current issue of AIPS Sport Media World Magazine Pages 46 & 47.
Here is the link to the magazine:
http://www.aipsmedia.com/album/AIPS0410/slide.html.
Please read the article and let me know everyones thoughts and/or comments.
Thanks.
Nick |
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John Germ, Photographer
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Wadsworth | Oh | USA | Posted: 2:46 PM on 02.09.11 |
| ->> wow that's an annoying flash - either it's fit-to-page and the print is too tiny to read or it's actual size and I'm looking at a document that is several screen sizes high by several wide. So my takeaway is that's a terrible way to present something to a reader. Given those two choices I found it wasn't worth trying to read the "actual size". So a good article may have been missed because it was presented poorly in my opinion. |
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Nick Turchiaro, Photographer
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Brampton | Ontario | Canada | Posted: 2:52 PM on 02.09.11 |
->> Hi John,
Sorry for that but I found that if you zoom it to 1:1 and drag the mouse over the article you can at least read it.
I know it's not the best way but I think the article is worth reading.
Thanks |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 4:13 PM on 02.09.11 |
| ->> Nick, to be truthfully honest. This is old news. It's just a rehash of things that have been discussed on this message board and among individual photographers for years. She's a little late in her "woe is me" attitude. It's somewhat like yelling the "house is on fire" when it has already burned to the ground. She actually came off sounding somewhat shrill in the piece. And I disagree on one aspect, things have changed but there are great images being made out there every day by people who, as she, have dedicated their lives to this craft. |
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Butch Miller, Photographer
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Lock Haven | PA | USA | Posted: 4:26 PM on 02.09.11 |
->> She may have been "late to the game" ... but I find it interesting that there are GWAC's receiving credentials for the Olympic Games ... not just access to neighborhood little league games ... seems as though this situation has filtered up to the highest levels on an international scale ...
I can relate to her annoyance with the spray and pray crowd ... I sat next to a young fellow at a HS wrestling match recently ... I swear his camera never stopped firing the entire match ... except it seemed the only time his camera fell silent, was right at the moments when the shutter should have been working ... now it's no skin off my nose how anyone else chooses to shoot ... it just seems weird that he hadn't yet learned to recognize what a good compelling image is and when to capture it ... |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Fontana | CA | USA | Posted: 4:49 PM on 02.09.11 |
| ->> I believe the article is from April 2010 |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Fontana | CA | USA | Posted: 4:55 PM on 02.09.11 |
| ->> interesting how she talks about world dominating agencies weilding their influence and pushing freelancers out, yet almost all the images in this publication are from getty images. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 7:49 AM on 02.10.11 |
| ->> Man that is one hell of a high horse that lady is riding. |
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Sam Santilli, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Philippi | WV | USA | Posted: 9:14 AM on 02.10.11 |
->> If the noise made by other photographers'cameras affect you, get ear plugs. Once again, nothing new here, but intersting to see it is being addressed on an international level. It still does not change things, and no solutions offered in the article either.
Butch, I got a comment the other night from a parent that she looks at my site first because we put less images up per game, but that the images are much better than other shooters who take alot more. She asked what do I do with the "throw away" images. I told her I do not take them in the first place. |
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