mrs.cos Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 These cant be the final edits.. If so.. im appalled. Outrage Over The Photographs Of The United States Olympic Team The internet has been buzzing about the quality of the photographs by photographer Joe Klamar at the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Media Summit in Dallas, Texas. The complaints came as a whole, but primarily from photographers, who claim that these photographs do not represent the upcoming U.S. Olympic team very well. The U.S. Olympic C.M.S. only allows a limited number of photographers on an invitation only basis to take pictures of our country’s best athletes. http://solsticevisuals.com/post/26229830602/outrage-over-the-photographs-of-the-united-states http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/05/14/phelps_144369538_540x405.jpg http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/05/14/hornton_144492539_540x405.jpg http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/05/14/bross_144490285.jpg http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/05/14/merritt_144487945_540x405.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky31186 Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 Lol I'm still a beginner and those look like crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furloaf Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 The lighting is so bad. Holy shit there are even worse in the link. These are truly terrible. (not that I could do much better, but come on) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 Sucks to be him right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furloaf Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/05/14/gunawan_144485828_540x405.jpg Seriously? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillJoy Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 Those pictures fucking suck! :thumbdown KillJoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractor Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 I bet they took the lowest bidder who just happened to be cousin of one of the athletes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImUrOBGYN Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 I seriously thought, "How bad could they be?" For fuck's sake, they're terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan9381 Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 I can barely work my camera on my phone and could do better than that...wtf is with the torn backdrop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye1647545503 Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 They are so bad they look like I took them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berto Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Oh well at least they are taking photos and posting them. Unlike this forum. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbotrio Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Oh well at least they are taking photos and posting them. Unlike this forum. lol Not that I ever shoot anything ecxiting (Other than Marks Z06 wheels off the ground at 210+ mph lol) but I'll try to start tossing something up a couple times a week Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs.cos Posted July 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Oh well at least they are taking photos and posting them. Unlike this forum. lol I have so much stuff to edit right now, but more shooting is getting I the way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berto Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 I know I know. I just finished 1200 sq ft of flooring. Have not had time to shoot too terribly much either. Have another trip to Portland coming up soon so I hope to have some fun with that. Just trying to get a rise out of ppl. These photos do suck though. The torn backdrop is cracks me up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs.cos Posted July 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 Can I go with you? I miss Portland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye1647545503 Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 Can I baby sit the 7, I don't care about portland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted July 8, 2012 Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 Photographer Joe Klamar's portraits of US Olympic atheletes have caused a lot of controversy this week, especially in the USA. Reaction to the shots, taken for French photo agency AFP, has been varied, with many commentors dismissing his images as unprofessional at best, and at worst unpatriotic. Others have defended Klamar, arguing that his apparently unpolished images represent a deliberate attempt to challenge the conventions of portrait photography. The truth, it turns out, is more mundane.*It seems Klamar was simply caught unprepared. According to Klamar, 'I was under the impression that I was going to be photographing athletes on a stage or during press conference where I would take their headshots for our archives [and]*I really had no idea that there would be a possibility for setting up a studio'. Full Read here: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/2012/07/05/Pixels-and-piety%3A-Photographing-Olympic-icons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractor Posted July 8, 2012 Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 Even still the hard light coming from the side of the subject is just poor placement in lots of the photos and really should have simply been turned off and either A) no flash used, or B) just bounce and on camera flash off anything at all or the ceiling and you could get much better photos than what was produced. Looking at them closely I wondered if they were even "the photos," to me they seem like they are more of what a "guy with camera" might get during a pro shoot rather than what anyone even a moron would get "doing the shoot" as the main photog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs.cos Posted July 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 He also wasn't *that* unprepared. Joe had come armed with two cameras and three lenses (17-35, 70-200 and 300), plus one flash and a 12-inch laptop. The 70-200 would have been MORE than adequate. THis was my response on a photography forum about this recent article. After reading what i just read, i feel even more frustrated with the photos he took. In a day and age where there are photographers everywhere fighting to get thier business understood and why we deserve to get paid, having photos like this show up as Getty/AEP images is a slight smack in the face. What he brought to the shoot is basicly what i use on almost every shoot i do. I applaud him for standing up and speaking about what happened, but i still feel like, if i came home and went through my loupe, these would have never left my desk. To add to that, he states that as a photographer he understands that you are winging it about 50% of the time (which is why most photographers come OVER prepared) He was able to "scrape" up a studio from a fellow photographer, he couldn't come up with a notecard and rubber band to use to bounce with? I have looked at others of his work, this is not his forte. I don't go photographing sports to sell because its not my forte, so why did he/his publisher let these out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractor Posted July 8, 2012 Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 I don't think I've been to a shoot in several years where I didn't bring 100-150lbs of equipment, and I don't have external power packs to add to that weight. I simply bring everything I could possibly need "times 3, or 5 for backup." Your right those photos would never have left my desk either. Several of them probably would have been deleted the moment after I shot them as simple lighting tests, but I sure as hell wouldn't have published them. I'd have told them the photos were erased by the airport metal detector first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted July 8, 2012 Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 Most all of those photos woud require 2-3 light sources to turn out correct and soften the shadows. If he didn't show with umbrellas a good studio lighting set up for these shots he was definitely unprepared. His equipment that was brought would suffice for action shots but not 95% of what I would shoot in a studio. Also, his flag and white backdrop.....are you fucking kidding me? No way he could have even used those for home use and expected someone not to say WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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