800mm photos of divers

[nivag]

Ezra Shaw, a Getty Images photographer, shoots divers at the 14th FINA World Championships:“Like any event, I am always trying to get something a little different each day. We had just got a 800mm lens shipped in from London and I decided to take it over to the diving pool and see what I could get. I set up down on the pool deck for the men’s 3-meter springboard prelims. After the first diver went, I realized it was going to be much more difficult to capture the type of images I wanted because the divers were jumping so fast, and the 800mm lens was so tight. However, I started to get the hang of it, and by the end of the session, I got a handful of pictures that I really liked showing the different faces of the divers.”

All photographs by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images.

http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2011/07/22/into-the-deep/?fb_ref=article_top&fb_source=home_oneline

[Zander]

LOL … now that really isn’t very flattering!

Some of the images on the original article were a bit more flattering … some worse!

http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2011/07/22/into-the-deep/?fb_ref=article_top&fb_source=home_oneline