Great athletes, bad photos

From Slate via SND's Facebook page. Photog on assignment for AFP takes shots, Getty picks them up, they get online and, you're right, it is not ending well.

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/photography/2012/07/bad_olympic_photos_how_terrible_shots_of_olympians_went_viral_.html

 

Here's a story with actual quotes from Klamar.

http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2012/07/olympic-portraits-by-afp-photographer-joe-klamar-create-controversy/39047/

 

Some of these are actually creative.

 

These suck. The background isn't wide enough, the subjects are to close to it, and the lighting is terrible. If the photographer was going for some kind of raw, unpolished look, he nailed it. It looks like someone gave a camera to a passerby and said, "Go for it."

 

This is what we've come to now in this country? Taking time out of our days to complain about photos? Yeesh.

 

Please, don't hide your respect for photography.

 

Good luck with your bitching. Hope it works out well for you.