Outrage Over The Photographs Of The United States Olympic Team
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This might actually be a good wakeup call in our industry....
When the "which photographer to hire" decision making process is based on things like "well, he shot photos of celebrity x" rather than any actual understanding of how things work in this industry, clients end up with images like the ones they got.... It's not impossible to do great photos at a "cattle call" event, like Slappy said and showed above.. doing hundreds of images that are good is possible once you get your setup right and have the charisma to talk and get people to work with you....
I just finished a 4 day job shooting thousands of images covering a major association conference, we did quite a bit of hurried, last minute changes.. maybe this is the time to think of "event photographers" as being no longer so low on the totem pole of publication photo editors mindsets, just because we can work fast doesn't meen we work shittily.... putting a "celeb papparazzi" out of his element into a high speed shoot, where you have to light well, re-arrrange things at client whims constantly and get great facial expressions all at once is a trial by fire kind of thing ... and if you've done it before you can do it well, but if you've specialized in situations where everything is setup for you, you may flub the job like these images seem to indicate.....
well, maybe photo editors will wake up, and/or the upper-end peopel who laid off all the photo editors will realize they need some thoughts about photographers who can do specific things well, not just "well, he shot celebrities so he must be great!"