Sports Photographers?

[scrichton]

Is there any large format sports photographers still in existence?
I have searched a while but the best I can do is the guy on the Linhof site that takes skiing pics.

[Gordon Moat]

Walter Iooss (http://www.walteriooss.com/) has done some work on larger Polaroids, and with a view camera. Of course, he also uses smaller cameras. Quite likely there are several others using large format, though I think Walter Iooss might be the best known.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat
A G Studio (http://www.allgstudio.com)

[Walter Calahan]

http://www.sportsshooter.com/

Can't say I've shot LF for Sports Illustrated, usually medium format for portraiture, but I'd give it a try if they want it. I've rigged up long glass on for my RB Graflex 4x5 SLR so I could do it.

Mostly LF is used by sports photographers for portraiture.

[David A. Goldfarb]

Once I was on Sandy Beach on O'ahu with my 4x5 Tech V, a 360/5.5 Tele-Xenar, and two sheets of film left, and it happened to be the final round of a surf competition. Well, it's not much of a shot, but I think I'd like to try more, probably with a rollfilm back--

http://www.apug.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=5850&d=1157835747

I've seen some B&W surf photography from the 1960s, and it's pretty cool.

[Ted Harris]

I started out shooting sports with a Speed Graphic. Mostly football. It was fun then but not sure I'd want to do it now.

[Brian Ellis]

With all of the continuous focus, rapid advance, and other auto type features available on 35m and digital cameras that seem ideal for sports it's hard to see a good reason for using a LF camera for sports, especially when photographing for a magazine or newspaper.

[Robert Oliver]

Robert Beck of Sports Illustrated has shot some MLB baseball stuff with a graphic, I only saw his stadium scenics. They were on his website. pretty cool stuff. I've played around with it. Shot some stadium panoramas with t55 for a client. He was also pretty into toy cameras for a while.

Beck is a great example of a photographer with all of the bells and whistles at his ready but instead going back to the shed for some old tricks to make his work stand out from the hordes of Digiclones....

Of course he can also shoot the digi stuff with the best of them.

[Robert Oliver]

http://www.robertbeckphotography.com

[scrichton]

Thanks guys. I must admit Robert Beck's stuff is great, the dodgers field having that amazing dreamy feel.