If You Aren’t Close Enough to Get Hurt, You May not be Close Enough
A self portrait shortly after a ref ran into me on the sideline. As i said, there is a fine line to be had and i crossed it. But i am now forever marked with photography--or something.
The other day i mentioned that to take great photographs you must become completely ingrained in the scene that you are photographing. What does this mean exactly?
When i got my internship with The Daily Iowan i was thrust under the wing of a “photo coach” named Danny Wilcox Frazier. Danny is a Midwestern based freelance photographer who’s work has appeared in the likes of Time (perhaps most notably a double truck following 9/11) and covered many big names like Clinton, Obama, McCain and others. The message here: He knows what he is doing.
One of the first things he tried to stress to me was a need to get over the fear of getting up close and personal with my camera. He took me and another intern out to the streets of Iowa City to observe us photographing what we saw. I was timid, and shy. To prove his point, he took my camera and walked up to complete strangers and started photographing them. He was being extreme but it proved a point.
You must be able to get up close and personal with your subjects. This is true in any form of photography including sports. Timid photographers often ask me how i can sit so close to the court, football field, baseball dimond, etc. My response is usually, “If you’re not close enough to get hurt, you’re not close enough.” This is, of course, tongue-in-cheek, mostly. But the fact remains: If you are unable to become a part of the scene–without disturbing it–your photographs will suffer.
One of my favorite photos required me to get about a foot away from my subject
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