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              Time Magazine Olympics
              Time Magazine Olympics
              July 20, 2012
              Jaron Schneider

              How You DO Shoot Olympic Athletes: The Best Yet

              As many of you probably agree, some of the photos of Olympic athletes thus far have been either strange or downright bad. It relieves me to find that there are some commissioned photographs that don’t make me cringe, but rather put a smile on my face. Both TIME and Women’s Health commissioned photographs that, in my opinion, really nailed the “Olympic Photograph.”

              These photos of olympians by Martin Schoeller are, in my opinion, the best yet released.


              Douglas Gabby TIME Double1 760x320 How You DO Shoot Olympic Athletes: The Best Yet
              Gabby Douglas for TIME Magazine

               

              Felix 03 Beach 1 00410 F 760x571 How You DO Shoot Olympic Athletes: The Best Yet
              Allyson Felix for Women’s Health Magazine

               

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              Lolo Jones for TIME Magazine

               

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              Nastia Liukin for Women’s Health Magazine

               

              Lochte Ryan Time Double 760x332 How You DO Shoot Olympic Athletes: The Best Yet
              Ryan Lochte for TIME Magazine

               


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              Natalie Coughlin for Women’s Health Magazine

               


              [Via TIME via VH-Artists]

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              • Jr Miller

                These aren’t very inspiring either…they should have thrown Joel Grimes into that mix. Just about every image I have seen so far is relying on gimmicks to generate interest.

              • http://www.facebook.com/james.sanny James Sanny

                Wait, so relying on composite work isn’t a gimmick? 

              • http://www.facebook.com/daniel.sather Daniel Sather

                My goodness the muscles on Natalie Coughlin’s legs are ridiculous. 

              • http://tambnguyen.com/ Tam Nguyen Photography

                I love Joel’s work when he doesn’t do the whole “composite it to a HDR background” deal, if you know what I mean. Ya know, just the actual portraits before he murders them in PS. It’s just me.

              • mingyang sun

                Not quite the best but these are decent photos.

                I like when the photographer add some twist when photographing these athletes but the ones Annie took are a bit too much and just don’t fit in together…

              • jmk257

                You guys just don’t get it do you? The whole this is how you do it, those other photos from that other dude suck is getting kind of old. There is a huge difference between a “media day” portrait and making a portrait when the athlete is made available to you outside of a conference room setting.

              • Ian Ivey

                Maybe, but if you’re in a conference room setting, perhaps you just shoot a simple portrait, rather than trying to capture an athlete in action. Except for those conference-room sports, of course. The criticism was a result of a photographer trying to do something impossible, and then publishing crap. 

              • Leah Sidwell

                JOEL GRIMES?! Fakey, silly, contrived photography that all looks like something from a video game. If HDR isn’t a gimmick, I don’t know what is. 

                On a side note, the Nastia Liuikin photo nearly makes me wet my pants. Creative and terrifying, if it were real.

              • Chris_Hoffmann

                What’s so terrifying? My day job is as a Steamfitter and I’m on edges of building everyday…. Oh yea, I’m not standing on my hands upside down… Ok, point made….  ;)

              • http://profile.yahoo.com/6VEA6HACWXRIGO2NVBGWXVLB6M harry

                Holy shit as if you guys are producing this/or being hired for this work.  This stuff right here is a hell of a lot better than the Team USA portraits talked about a few weeks ago.  The only bad one of the bunch is the Lolo Jones one…looks like an addict slumped in her chair.

                If you guys are such ballers shooting athletes outside of just their sporting venue then post them up for us to see and comment on otherwise STFU.

              • Roaming Tyro

                Another gallery to add to the mix, and granted the direction is a bit different, no less worthy: http://espn.go.com/espn/photos/gallery/_/id/8136693/image/1/carlos-bocanegra-2012-body-issue-bodies-want-espn-magazine

              • http://twitter.com/JasonMyersPhoto Jason Myers

                Ha! Don’t get me wrong, I like Joel Grimes, but to say he doesn’t add gimmicks to his images is pretty silly. Compositing is a complete gimmick and I agree HDR is also. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with either, but to say these traditional images that took a lot of planning and talent to pull of without compositing or HDR aren’t acceptable is disingenuous. 

              • http://twitter.com/georgesocka George Socka

                and guys, whatever youre using to host this thing don’t work in IE – cant see the first 4 images.

              • http://www.facebook.com/hiroschneider Jaron Schneider

                Covered this last week my friend :)
                http://fstoppers.com/preview-espns-body-issue-2012

              • http://www.facebook.com/hiroschneider Jaron Schneider

                IE is struggling with our site right now. Try using a different browser, such as Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or Safari. Thanks!

              • http://twitter.com/BenicioMurray Benicio Murray

                It’s 2012 for crying out loud. people who use IE should be banned form the internet.

              • http://www.facebook.com/jared.pyfer Jared Pyfer

                Haters gonna hate. 

              • http://www.facebook.com/RRhallPD Rob Hall

                I Think that is a composite as well…given her lighting quality and shadow location…

              • http://www.facebook.com/RRhallPD Rob Hall

                Worst logic ever. Have you ever said a movie sucked? I’m sure you have yet I doubt you make multi-million dollar movies. You do not need to be doing the same caliber of work in order to comment or criticize it, nor even be involved with it whatsoever. 

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