
Touchdowns and Triumphs: 60 Years of NFL Photography
A photographer has lifted the lid on 60 years as an NFL photographer which saw him cover 42 Super Bowls.
A photographer has lifted the lid on 60 years as an NFL photographer which saw him cover 42 Super Bowls.
Photographing football campaigns in one of the most aggressive and intense types of commercial photography there is. While some photoshoots will have a sushi chef for craft services, football sets have doughnuts, caffeine and loud music. Football is unlike any other sport to capture, and I absolutely love it.
The photographer who was pushed over by Las Vegas Raider player Dante Adams has filed a report with the police.
Las Vegas Raiders star Davante Adams took his frustration out on a photographer by shoving him to the ground while exiting the field.
Brad Bradley photographed his first Cotton Bowl in 1948 with a Graflex Speed Graphic when he was just 26 years old. When he photographs the 87th edition of the annual college football game on January 2, 2023, he will be 100 years old, having turned a century in July 2022.
Photographer Kevin C. Cox has covered 11 Super Bowls leading up to Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles. Tom Brady, the newly-retired quarterback who is widely considered the greatest ever, played in five of those eleven and won four of them. Cox has also been fortunate to cover Brady celebrating on the field with his wife and children after three Super Bowls.
Photographer John Biever covered the very first Super Bowl back in 1967 at the age of just 15. He is now the only photographer who has shot every single Super Bowl spanning over five decades of the NFL championship game.
AI cameras have come a long way when it comes to object recognition and tracking, but sometimes the "intelligence" can fail in humorous ways. At a recent professional soccer match in Scotland, the AI broadcast camera tasked with tracking the soccer ball kept getting distracted by the sideline referee's bald head.
A photographer was knocked unconscious at a college football game this past weekend after a player slammed into her as she shot from the sidelines. The scary incident was captured on national TV.
Before the 2019 Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day, someone decided it would be a good idea to have Texas Longhorns mascot Bevo the longhorn steer meet Georgia Bulldogs mascot Uga the bulldog. Bevo decided to charge Uga at first sight, and photographer Nick Wagner unexpectedly found himself in the way.
I'm sitting in the end zone and Tennessee's quarterback is ready to throw for a touchdown against Missouri. There are only three frames left on my roll of film and I think to myself, "That's more than enough."
NFL football players are known for occasionally pulling out creative and excessive touchdown celebrations. This past Sunday, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill celebrated a score by taking over a CBS TV camera and trying his hand at capturing his team's joy himself.
For certain sports, telephoto lenses are crucial for allowing viewers to see the action from a distance. But for one major football game this weekend, ESPN was forced to broadcast parts of the game with a wide-angle view. Frustration, mocking, and hilarity ensued.
I was commissioned recently to create a photo illustration for Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation’s Annual Report for a story on concussions in high school football players. This is a big issue not just for the NFL but also in youth sports.
I recently got a call from a client in Chile asking if I’d like to photograph Alexis Sanchez for the cover of COSAS magazine. Alexis is Chile’s most capped footballer was just transferred from Arsenal to Manchester United. He is also one of his country’s biggest celebrities. COSAS is Chile’s biggest selling lifestyle and celebrity magazine. Obviously, I said yes.
It has been two years since I approached the Premier League with an idea of photographing their fans around the world. I had gone out of the blue to pitch the idea to them, something I had never done before.
This past Saturday, I was assigned by NFL.com to photograph the Divisional Playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
My name is Shawn Hubbard, and I'm the team photographer of the Baltimore Ravens football team in the NFL. I’ve always loved the challenge of shooting with a camera phone.
Announced last week, Apple's new iPhone 7 Plus claims to pack the world's most advanced smartphone camera -- a dual camera system that can zoom optically and simulate depth of field. Now the first real-world iPhone 7 Plus photos have emerged: they were shot this past weekend at an NFL Sunday Night game and at the US Open.
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