Comments on: The Life of a Super Bowl Sports Photographer

By: Stefano Druetta

Stefano Druetta — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:00:00 +0000

don’t take it too personally, I’m not blaming anyone, I’m just noting way too geartalk than storytelling. I landed on that article yesterday morning and it looked just like a great insight of what happened, I wish I could have seen it here. anyway what you wrote about the shooting is certainly very interesting, but no more than 10 lines as kind of side note or consequence to an article as that one linked in my previous post.
apologies for the hating ; )

By: Zach Sutton Photography

Zach Sutton Photography — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:04:00 +0000

Duly noted :-)

I’ll be sure to focus my attention more on the photos next time. The article I read and got most of my info from though, was centered around the gear and process….and SI doesn’t give out their photos to just anyone, even with a photo credit.

By: Stefano Druetta

Stefano Druetta — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:46:00 +0000

can you PLEASE please please write something more than GEAR-centric stuff? it looks like we’re all in this industry for the gadgets, not for the stories.
where are you fstoppers talking about pictures like these? http://deadspin.com/5981338/the-best-and-most-surreal-photographs-from-the-power-outage-at-the-superdome
NOWHERE. well done.

By: Chase Stevens

Chase Stevens — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:16:00 +0000

I know at least with the 1D series, name and copyright/source data can be embedded into the camera so it appears looking at a shot’s metadata. I’m sure they leave the shots on the card or have individual ftp folders or some sort of server folders for access later.

I’d say 90% of photographers on that field, if not more (including SI, major wires, newspapers etc) are all staff photographers that have signed their copyright away, but that is the staff standard.

By: Chase Stevens

Chase Stevens — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:11:00 +0000

Major wires bring their staffers for major events like this, they wouldn’t use stringers. I’m sure they use a pretty similar system. Maybe instead of runners using the Canon wireless transmitter (my newspaper uses one sometimes too) and having a couple (or a few) photo editors working on selecting and captioning the images. Like mentioned in the original interview, the OIympics is like 16 days of the Super Bowl, so this is easier as a whole to the big wires and papers.

By: Zach Sutton Photography

Zach Sutton Photography — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:03:00 +0000

I fixed it. I let you down, and for that, I’m sorry.

By: LaRon Stewart

LaRon Stewart — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:00:00 +0000

The shooters in question are Sports Illustrated employees, so their cards go to the SI system. They use their metadata from their camera systems to label their images, and they have access to the uploader system, so they can pull images if need be. The point of the runner to uploader setup is to keep the photographer shooting, without having to worry about all the rest. Think of it like a relay race: photog shoots, runner unloads, rinse and repeat.

As far as the AP/Gettys/Reuters people, I don’t know, but I would assume they’re freelanced, and have a way of submitting images as well.

By: LaRon Stewart

LaRon Stewart — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:54:00 +0000

It’s actually not that bad. I get to shoot a few NCAA football games, and at the end, it’s a paparazzi kind of vibe. Shooting sideline is a nice change of pace to shooting portraits and less chaotic events. Plus, if your camera has a good AF system, then you get quiote a few usable shots.

By: Clint James

Clint James — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:50:00 +0000

These spray and pray guys you speak of are mostly the same sideline guys you also speak of. They usually leave the monopod mounted rigs behind with these assistants/runners and hit the field with the handheld setups mentioned in the article. They way it packs in during the post-game, you pretty much have to get the camera in the air unless you have the front row view of the crying Ray Lewis (unless you think the shot of the back of the photog’s head in front of you will make the cover).

By: tonyc0101

tonyc0101 — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:09:00 +0000

ONLY 2,000 pics? LOL