Robert Seale is a high end sports portrait photographer who was recently commissioned by Sports Illustrated to photograph Evan Longoria of the Tampa Bay Rays. His attempt to create something unique and a bit off-kilter involved using a huge 8'x5' piece of Plexiglas that was 1.25 inches thick and 400 pounds. He then set the huge piece of Plexi on a 5 foot tall frame of scaffolding. Using a couple of Profoto Pro-7B strobes and a unique 'below the player' angle, Robert was able to create this photograph for the magazine. The concept and image are fantastic but unfortunately the BTS video is just a timelapse. If you have a hard time imagining what is going on in this video, head over to Rob Galbraith's post for a traditional write up.
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For a second I saw Eva Longoria.. how disappointing.
Sound would have set this thing off.
Great behind the scenes time lapse! My brother played baseball through college. This reminds me of a shoot I did of him in high school, where we went out into a vast corn field and set up Profoto strobes! The whole "Field of Dreams" theme. This was in Idaho so it wasn't hard to find a corn field!
Great behind the scenes time lapse! My brother played baseball from age 5 up through college. This reminds me of a shoot I did of him in high school. We went into a vast corn field and set up Profoto strobes! The whole "Field of Dreams" theme. However, this was in Idaho so it wasn't hard to find a corn field!
Patrick Rodwell
Seattle Commercial Photographer
http://www.patrickrodwell.com
Seriously fstoppers i'm all for change and everything (even though i personally liked your old design better) but really what is up with this whole white text on white background stuff? I can't read half the post and have a pretty hard time reading the other.
chill out Tom, a text script got changed by accident :)
Glad to hear it :)
This probably isn't the best place to leave this comment but....
White text on light gray & white backgrounds in the comments is IMPOSSIBLE to read.
Please change this ASAP.
Great video. I couldn't have been the only one with Yakity Sax playing in my head?
I'm shocked this video is getting such a low rating. I assume it's because there isn't much to the BTS video because I would LOVE to have an image like this in my portfolio.
Is it just me or the nike shoes doesn't really belong ? I mean he is dressed as he would be if he was in the field and hitting a ball, why is he not wearing the proper shoes ?