This video features Sports Illustrated photographers showing and describing techniques for great sports photography as they cover a recent U.S. Olympic festival. You'll learn valuable, practical skills from Ron Modra, best known for his baseball pictures, and John Biever, whose football work is considered some of the best today. Other pros in the program include Bill Eppridge, who began his career at Life, Rich Clarkson, who has covered seven Olympics for Sports Illustrated and Time, and Phil Jache, assistant director of photography at Sports Illustrated, who describes how he edits pictures for publication.
Sports photography topics covered in the program include preparation, attitude, attention/concentation, viewpoints for coverage, THE shot, significant action, lens selection, remotes, tricks of the trade, selling ideas, and creating a sports portfolio. The program is fast paced and loaded with visual examples of professional techniques.