Friday, April 27, 2007

Apple Profiles Sports Photographer Brad Mangin

As a photographer of local youth sports, the accomplishments of freelance sports photographer Brad Mangin are something for me to aspire to. Posted on the Apple website, Joe Cellini has taken a look at Mangin’s impressive work during the recent spring training season here in Arizona. Included in the article is Mangin’s background, philosophy, workflow, equipment and most importantly a photo gallery. Here’s an except.

…Mangin “kicked around,” stringing for the Associated Press and eventually taking a job with a small newspaper, but he was unhappy. “I had a taste of just doing sports full time,” he says. “So I quit my newspaper job, and since 1993 I have been a full-time sports photographer — working completely without a net.”…

… “We shoot RAW+JPEG at Sports Illustrated,” he explains. “They edit from the JPEGs and process the RAWs — they want the beautiful files. And the stuff in the magazine looks incredible. They’ve really got it dialed in now.”…

Mangin is usually armed with a Canon EOS-1D Mark IIN, a 17-inch MacBook Pro and Apple’s Aperture image editing application. View the entire online article on the Apple website.

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