LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Sports Photographer Simon Bruty. During his career, Simon has traveled extensively to work on feature stories as diverse as soccer in Zambia, golfers in Greenland, and badminton in Indonesia. He photographs football, tennis, skiing, soccer, and golf for Sports Illustrated. He has developed a diverse archive of portraiture including Michael Phelps with his eight Olympic gold medals, Lance Armstrong, Ben Bradlee, and David Beckham among other modern luminaries. His award-winning photograph of Ronaldo was featured in an ad for Canon Europe before the 2006 World Cup Games and in 2003 The London Observer chose one of Simon’s photographs to be included in their list of the World’s 50 Greatest Sports Photographs.
In this episode, Simon talks about the difference between being a photographer in England and in the US, photographic opportunities, hardest athletes to photograph, what makes sports photographers different than other photographers, shooting the Super Bowl, the Olympics and much more. We created a special video of Simon’s images with his explanation of each that plays (above) and then the full podcast interview, which is below.
Equipment, Software and sites mentioned in this podcast: Canon 1D Mark IV, Adobe Photoshop, Canon 70-200mm lens, Canon 300 mm lens, Canon 400 mm lens, Canon 600 mm lens.
Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., Photo Book Press, and Tafota.com. Podcast network commercials from Rosh Sillars New Media Photographer, Jim Goldstein EXIF and beyond and Martin Bailey Photography.
To listen to the full podcast interview, click on the player’s forward arrow below. You can also play the Podcast in a pop up window, download it OR subscribe to it via iTunes. You can download a List of Questions (PDF format) that I ask in the interview.
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