life:
Movement. Emotion. In sports, both factors are constantly in flux, making the role of — and the challenge faced by — the photographer something of a contradiction: How to capture, freeze, distill that fluid intensity in one signature image?
Over the decades, LIFE photographers embraced that contradiction, and time after time emerged with pictures that illuminated, delighted, and thrilled the magazine’s millions of readers.
Pictured: In this photograph by George Silk, 14-year-old diver Kathy Flicker’s perfect 10-point entry into the waters of a pool at Princeton University’s Dillion Gym. Silk lowered the water level and set up a half-dozen flash units to get this shot.
(see more — LIFE at 75 Classic Sports Shots)
Source: life
Possibly
One of the things that could possibly transform an unremarkably normal photograph into a stride-stoppingly brilliant one is picture resolution. Adding a few cunningly chosen dashes of colour, a bit of perspective and an open-to-interpretation theme, it might just come across as one of those things people rave about just because other people are doing it. Speaking for myself, I can’t pass over such a photograph without stopping to think, “What a profound and stunning picture! Surely there has to be some meaning to this, it’s all so awfully poetic! Hmm…” (Cocking his head to one side, index finger’s tip touching lip, one elbow supported on the other arm)
The trick, I guess, is to induce this specific thought in the beholder. Use a high-res camera, capture a few images of anything in motion, everyday life even. Flick the ball into his court, challenge his powers of comprehension.
