Sport
Sport is a genre of photography which covers all types of sports, from car races to even skydiving. In my opinion, this is one of the most popular types of photography which majority of people around the world are seeing every day, for example in newspapers, adverts, internet or TV. Sport photographers are facing a huge task list before they will decide to shoot a photo; they have to look for perfect angle, aperture, tone and view on the subject/s. In most cases fastest shutter speed is required in order to prevent picture being blurry. I think that the hardest part about sport photography is being able to spot the one, perfect bit of second to shot a photo; very often subjects are moving very fast so this makes the photographer's job even more difficult because eye of his camera has to be 'looking' at the centre of action all the time, this means dynamic adjusting of aperture and zoom. Definitely, all of those aspects are making sport photography one of the most challenging, exciting and satisfying types of photography.
Bob Martin
He is an English multi-award winning sports photographer. Bob took part in photographing every major sporting event which happened in last 30 years, like Winter Olympics or even Horse Racing on Ice. Moreover, he is a three time winner of British Sports Photographer of the Year which is a very prestigious and rare award. Martians published a book about his photography- ‘’1-1000th’’, this book also won the important Sported Inter-nation Sports Book Award. He is a very skilled and professional photographer with a huge amount of experience and hours of photography.
Jamey Price
He is an Motorsport, automotive and lifestyle photographer. Price has been in more than 15 countries and in most of US photographing. His images were published by very popular sport magazines like Top Gear or F1 Racing. He is still doing images for some of the most respected companies and racing teams like Ferrari, Red Bull or Aston Martin. Moreover he is also taking pictures of horse racing. Jamey won a lot of rare sport photography rewards and he is also respected photographer in this genre.
My photoshoot
In this experiment I've done so many different things just to make the viewers look at the players and ball. Firstly, the hardest and the most important part was to crop the rest of the picture out and blur the background in the remaining part, I had to do it 2 times; I used too strong blur in a first try. At the beginning, I made two, same layers, I blurred whole of one of the layers and then I have been using eraser tool to separate players and ball from the background. Then, I selected only background and made it black and white but not fully (about 70% opacity because with full the image looked like a fake). At the end I experimented with the lighting, contrast, colours and darkness of the players and ball; originally, they were looking too pale and dark. In my opinion, I reached my target for this experiment, before, the audience could focus their eyes on anything on this picture: curtain in the background, lamp or even lines on the floor, now, players along with the ball are in the centre of the picture and there's a clear contrast between them and the rest of the photo.