Just read an interesting blog and saw some pictures taken of U.S. Olympic athletes back in May. Apparently, the photographer did a different take on his portraits of the athletes. A lot of photographers on reddit feel that he completely missed the mark.
It appears he shot these badly intentionally, but I'm not sure why anyone would do that. Wouldn't that give someone else pause in their decision to hire this guy going forward? Not the kind of notoriety I would want.
Ron my opinion is that these are just plain awful. If he was trying a different style fine but these are OOF, badly exposed, bad lighting, lousy poses, I could go on but they just plain stink. Someone with a camera phone taking snapshots would have done better.
It looks like the photographer just got his first off camera flashes the day before and tried to cram Strobist 101 into his head the night before the shoot. Harsh lighting with no control of shadows, bad focus and everything else. Looks like the work of the lowest bidder. If the photographer had no idea how to set up OCF, he should have stuck with natural light.
wow... those are terrible... I'm pretty sure they found whatever creeper with a D40 they could find and said heres some quartz lights with modifiers... oh and heres a blue shower curtain to shoot one thru...
From some articles that I have read, they're trying to spin it that HE was trying to de glorify the athletes and show them as ordinary people. Yeah right.
WOW - it truly looks like this is the first time he used studio lights and the first time he actually had to pose people vs just photograph them in the action... How could this assignment go to a person so lacking in qualifications
It is so bad that I can even allow a chance that this was done on purpose by someone who knows what he is doing....
AlexF wrote:
WOW - it truly looks like this is the first time he used studio lights and the first time he actually had to pose people vs just photograph them in the action... How could this assignment go to a person so lacking in qualifications
It is so bad that I can even allow a chance that this was done on purpose by someone who knows what he is doing....
Hey at least people are talking about the Olympic shots, many of the other shots taken that day look similar to high school "sportraits". Put a photographer in a 10x12 box, supply a few props like a flag and some gear, add an athlete, who most likely would rather be somewhere else than posing for a different photographer every 5 minutes, and what do you get....well you get a ton of pictures that's for sure.
I bet the Olympic PR folks are loving it. hopefully there will some high quality images that are given more time to produce...maybe 15 minutes
