Mice Rodger! Thanks for placing the new link and for your answer.
Originally Posted by Rodger
That's because you look at it the wrong way. I think most colleges encourage it as long as you're original. Problem with actionsports photography is that it is mostly not about the picture itself, but about what the player is doing. And you often need to have a decent background story to understand what happened. Like the emotion after scoring etc. If you don't know what happened you might not like the picture at all, but once you know the background, it might be much stronger.
But if you could shoot action sports and have people liking your pictures without even liking the sport or knowing what happens, then you're on the right track and I think that colleges do encourage this. Problem is simply the basic reputation of a sportsphotographer.
Also the fact that a lot of people simply take shots (that sometimes are really bad and even out of focus) and sell them on the internet sets the boundaries for sportsphotograpy a lot different than let's say portraiture. I struggled a lot with this issue and stopped shooting sports, because my co-photographer wanted to sell the shots and go for quantity and I wanted to do it for free (for my fun) and go for quality.
Maybe anytime soon, you'll be the first on my list to show them if I do.
Jan
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