JJ Di Luigi stiff-arms Mychal Sisson.
BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall
Colorado State’s Shaq Bell was called for pass interference on McKay Jacobson.
Colorado State fans.
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Which Fan (Or) Are You?
BYU fans in LaVell Edwards Stadium, BYU vs. New Mexico, Saturday October 11, 2008.
I look through the fans in the photo above and instantly know which one would be me. It’s the guy in the tan jacket with his back to the game, staring at the snow falling in the mountains. I just can’t imagine sitting and watching sports. Without a camera my mind would be elsewhere. I’ll get to that at the bottom of the post.
If you came looking for photos of the BYU game, I apologize. I’m trapped inside this frame, looking for characters I can blow up into pixelized goodness. Like these:
So do you have to be a sports fan to be a great sports photographer? The answer to me is clearly, “No.”
When I’m photographing a game, I don’t care whether the blue team or the red team wins. This is to my advantage because when the game gets close and tight I’m not worried about my team scoring the winning touchdown, I’m focusing on my photography.
After the Jazz lost their second shot at the NBA Championship in 1998, Sports Illustrated ran a double-truck photograph of Michael Jordan’s championship-winning shot. It was a brilliant photo, full of detail. You could see every face in the crowd and along the baseline. We immediately scanned the photo for the photographers we knew and noticed that every newspaper photographer but one were watching, not shooting. Only one had his camera to his eye, shutting out the emotion of the game, to capture the shot. The others were all staring in awe at the play like sports fans, missing the shot.
For the record, it was the Tribune photographer code-named “Cobra” who was shooting.
Okay, one more fan photo. I just noticed that this fan needs to get his zipper fixed:
American Idol – Faces of Disappointment
The reactions of David Archuleta fans as David Cook, not Archuleta, is announced the winner of the seventh season of American Idol during a live broadcast.
We’re going back nearly two months to the night that Utah’s David Archuleta DID NOT win American Idol. It’s taken me that long to get to these photographs and piece together what the face of disappointment looks like.
Here’s a little of the creative process. As the announcement was made, I shot photos of the fans from across the arena with a 400mm lens. Photos like this:
I went through 25 photos like this and pulled out these 70 faces:
Once I had the 70 photos on the screen (oh yeah, it’s a 140 megabyte file with 70 layers), I started playing around with placement. It was quickly apparent that smaller groups of similar images would be more effective. Like this panel of people stunned with their mouths open:
And I couldn’t pass up playing with these pieces. Without heads:
and with:
Pre-Game – HS State Championships
There’s often a big difference in the photographs newspaper photojournalists take today vs. the photographs taken historically. Those of today are typically shot tight and clean with crisp expensive long glass. They’re pretty, but in a way we’re suffering from tunnel vision. Often when I’m editing my take from a basketball game I realize that none of my photos show a historical view of the overall scene. Hundreds of action shots seem meaningless when compared to an image like this that captures the climate and culture of America today:
Then the lights go down for pre-game introductions (oh, it’s Piute vs. Escalante for the 1A State Basketball Championship). I can either sit back or shoot. These photographs seem to have no life in print. I shoot.
Raise your hands if you like these kinds of photos.
2007 Portfolio: BYU vs. Utah
From my 2007 Portfolio.
Provo – BYU defeats the University of Utah 17-10 in college football action Saturday at BYU’s Lavell Edward Stadium. fans and ref
Jazz vs. Kings – Ron Artest
From the start of the game (Utah Jazz vs. Sacramento Kings), I noticed the fans taking a serious delight in taunting Sacramento’s Ron Artest. It was especially vicious stuff like, “Go beat your wife” and even, “Go feed your dogs!” The guy on the top right of the photo above is twirling his finger making the common gesture for INSANE.
In the second half it seemed to get to him. He got into a couple of shoving situations with Matt Harpring, and pretty soon I was just keeping the focus on him non-stop. Just in case.
At this point he scored and was fouled and started pounding his fist to the crowd. Lots of reaction there. But then he fouled Andrei Kirilenko and was thrown out of the game with his second technical foul. Look at the reaction of the Jazz fans as he walks to the locker room:
