Who is the photographer for the 2008 Olympic Games?

There are quite a few photographers in the 2008 Olympic Games. Let me name one.

Photographer Adam Pretty: Taking the theme photos of the 2008 Olympic Games.

AdamPtetty has filmed four Olympic Games and won the prestigious sports photography award. Underwater photography is his specialty. In China, he photographed China's top sports stars, such as Yao Ming, Liu Xiang, Yang Wei, Cheng Fei, Chen Yanqing and Wu Peng. A few days ago, BOCOG officially appointed Getty Images, a photo agency, to entrust him with the shooting task. At that time, people will see his photos with the theme of China Olympic Games on the streets of Beijing.

In 2008, streets and skyscrapers will be covered with 55 different sports coats, and 55 Olympic events will jump into the eyes of China people and foreigners at any time with a unified theme image. AdamPretty, an Australian boy, will have a sense of happiness different from ordinary people because he has a secret in his heart-"I took all these photos!" " "

At the end of June 2007, the shooting of the theme image of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was finalized. People's eyes focused on GettyImages, a famous photo agency of the winning bidder, and Getty Images entrusted this important task to AdamPretty, the chief sports photographer in Asia.

At this time, AdamPretty had just arrived in Beijing for three months. So far, Adam has participated in the coverage of four Olympic Games and won many awards. The 2008 Olympic Games will be his most brilliant experience.

In August, Adam and his colleagues had to take photos of 55 Olympic events in two months. He walks into the studio of the Central Academy of Fine Arts every day and starts shooting two or so sports. He has photographed Liu Xiang, Yao Ming and other top athletes in China. He told reporters that he likes Yao Ming best because he is humorous and tells jokes from time to time.

Not surprisingly, Adam was destined to be the photographer who shot the most Olympic stars in China in 2008 Olympic Games.

However, shooting star athletes is not Adam's strong suit. Since/kloc-entered the photography industry at the age of 0/7, he is most famous in the photography field-underwater photography. This is his unique skill.

The goddess China flies underwater.

"I've always wanted to take photos of many people underwater to highlight the feeling of flying. Because sometimes when I dive, I feel like flying. " In May, he was inspired when he watched the Hollywood blockbuster "300 Warriors". "There is a scene where a woman dances in the water in a thin and beautiful gauze skirt, which looks mysterious."

The posture of ancient Greek women in the movie reminds Adam of the way jellyfish move in the water. "Their movements are very elegant and beautiful, like floating, like flying, very dynamic and three-dimensional. This also inspired me to take this group of photos underwater. "

China women's synchronized swimming team became the object of his shooting. Adam gave the movie DVD to a fashion designer named Huang Yue and asked him to make several sets of long white ribbons according to the clothes in the movie. Worried about the effect of the ribbon in the water, he found some friends and posed for an experiment in the swimming pool first. "There are some minor problems with the ribbon that need to be modified." In this way, in the back-and-forth experiments, the effect is close to perfection.

"We went to the national team to see the swimming pool twice." Before each shooting, Adam felt like a hunter surveying and shooting the terrain. He has a set of regrets about choosing the best location: "When shooting the Olympic swimming events, I put the camera underwater and remotely controlled it on the shore. But it may take about 1 year to choose the perfect angle underwater. Many times, it may be a failure. "

With only 65,438+0.5 hours of shooting time, Adam must make all the preparations and show the sketches and photos taken with friends to five synchronized swimmers. As usual, he tied the EOS 1D camera to his right hand and motioned China to shoot on and under the water.

Adam told reporters that the shooting time was relatively short. Usually, he stays in the water for two hours or more in sports photography. Lonely and nervous shooting fun in the water can also bring him many good memories.

"At the Asian Games in Doha last year, I filmed the women's sailing competition underwater. I stuck my head out. Suddenly, a female athlete from China was on a sailboat and asked me what I was doing from a height. I told her I was taking pictures, and she was surprised, so we started chatting and exchanged email addresses on the water. " At sea, two strangers met unexpectedly, and Adam remembered the story vividly.

A university that will never graduate.

AdamPretty is a native of Sydney, with a Hungarian mother and an Australian father. In Sydney high school, in order to make money to buy a camera, a dam began to convince her classmates: "I can get 50-60 Australian dollars for a photo, and I will buy a camera for 2000 Australian dollars."

At this time, he tried to take pictures of his classmates underwater. "You know, boys are vain when they are young, and they have to do something different from others." Little Adam proved that his way was to play tricks underwater, because "there were not many people taking pictures in the water at that time." "When I was two or three years old, my parents threw me into the water." Ada M told reporters about his growing environment. The atmosphere in Australia where everyone can swim is really a good place to brew an underwater photographer.

Unable to dive, Adam began to boldly take photos with his middle school classmates underwater. "I took it, stayed underwater for a few minutes, and then floated up." Because of his natural affinity for water, Adam noticed the charm of light changing with the current underwater, and slowly, he forgot the fear of being submerged.

/kloc-after graduating from high school at the age of 0/6, Adam went to study in the visual design department of a university in Sydney, but after two months, he found that he couldn't stand it. "I can't handle it. Work is more important. When studying in class, it is better to shoot it yourself. " Up to now, Adam still hasn't graduated from college. He has no regrets about it.

1997, at the age of 20, began to work in the Sydney Morning Herald and began to do city news photography. Then he locked in sports, went to Allsp ort, and then entered Gettyimages. Since then, this young man who is passionate about underwater photography has won various sports photography awards, including 1997 IOC Best Sports Photography Award. In 2004, he won the Walkley News Award for his works at the Athens Olympic Games.

"Passion and enthusiasm are the reasons why I can shoot all my life." In his 30-year-old life, Adam always believed this.