Week 5 (Sports Photographer)

Michael Clark

Background:

He is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure spots, travel and landscape photography. He produce intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, big wave surfers and mountain bikers in remote location around the world, He uses unique angles, bold colors, stronf graphics and dramatic lighting to capture fleeting moments of passion, gusto, flair and bravado in the outdoors. Balancing extreme action with subtle details, striking portraits and wild landscape, he creates images for the editorial, advertising and stock markets worldwide

His Photos: 

This one is a cool photo because it has emotion of the photo and the right time to capture it. To take a climb the cliff picture is risk our life too because we also need to go up and look down to take the shoot. When I see this photo what I feel is the difficult emotion from the people to reach another climb step

What I like from this photo is nice angle to shoot it and also nice gesture to shoot it. I like the oval things around the bikers. It makes it looks so interesting and also I think the lens or the editing also make it interest because it makes the photo looks like a little bit oval like fish eye photo.

I always like surfers photo when they just surfing. I like how the wave can surround them and the surfing gesture is so cool. Maybe Michael uses long lens and fast shutter speed to shoot this photo. I like the details of the water itself.

This kind of photo is difficult to get it. I think this photo need helicopter to shoot it. I like how he shows the details of the snow cliff and also make the people become interesting or focus object because the red jacket of that person is a contrast color with the cliff.

I like all the details in this photo and the right time he shoot it. I like the splash of that water and also the face of that person. What I feel when I see this photo is more like fresh and relax photo.

I like the lighting of this photo and how he makes all the people who was playing the skateboard looks like shadow under the sun. I like how he makes the focusing point is the sunset and a man in the center that playing skateboard. And also what I like is how he can make the dark place not too dark but also having details and reflection of the sun through the skateboard arena.

The first thing that come out in my mind is this picture maybe fake one or editing picture. But fake or not I like this picture. I don't know what kind of sport it is but I like the color of this picture like giving hope for new day. We also can see the shadow of the mountain behind that person. And also the right time to shoot this kind of picture. If it's a real photo, I think Michael is really working hard on his photo and the way to get the photo like that.

Reflection:

I like all the series photo that have done by this photographer, Michael Clark because he has a lot of effort to get nice photos even though it also risk his life. I like how he capture the right moment for doing some fast sport. And how he uses lighting, consider the angle of the photos and also the detail like some emotion that has been put on his photos. I think all his photos are so nice and interesting and it's all about adventure, sport, travel and landscape.