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Episode 0043: Interview with Mark Rebilas, Sports Photographer

by Dave Warner on March 23, 2010

LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Sports Photographer Mark Rebilas. Mark is the son of motor sports photographer Gil Rebilas. He was a US Navy photographer and led a team of 22 photographers as an editor/photographer on an aircraft carrier through a wartime deployment in 2004. After being honorably discharged in 2006 he moved back to his hometown in Arizona to begin a new career as a freelance sports photographer.

Mark is a regular contributor to ESPN the Magazine and US Presswire and his images regularly appear in Sports Illustrated, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and many others.

In this episode, Mark talks about how his dad stuck a camera in his hands at age 10, photography in the military, Daytona, NASCAR, NFL Football, equipment, the toughest sport to cover, how he gets his jobs, and much more. We created a special video of Mark’s images with his explanation of each that plays (above) and then the full podcast interview, which is below. Mark is also pretty active on Facebook and Twitter, so make sure you connect with him.

Equipment, Software and sites mentioned in this podcast: Nikon D3, Nikon 300mm lens, 600 mm lens, 1.4 tele-converter.

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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Episode 0041: Interview with Simon Bruty, Sports Photographer

by Dave Warner on March 9, 2010

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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