Who is the photographer of the 2008 Olympic Games?

There are many photographers for the 2008 Olympic Games, let me name one

Photographer Adam Pretty: the person responsible for the 2008 Olympic Games themed photo shoot

Adam Ptetty has photographed 4 Olympic Games. He has won prestigious sports photography awards, and underwater photography is his specialty; in China, he has photographed top Chinese sports stars such as Yao Ming, Liu Xiang, Yang Wei, Cheng Fei, Chen Yanqing, and Wu Peng; recently, the official photo agency of the Olympic Organizing Committee Emperor Image entrusted him with the shooting task; by then, people will see the Chinese Olympic-themed pictures he took in the streets and alleys of Beijing.

In 2008, Beijing, streets, alleys, and skyscrapers will all wear 55 different sportswear. The 55 sports events of the Olympic Games will jump into the eyes of Chinese and foreigners at any time with a unified theme image. . Adam Pretty, an Australian young man, will have a different sense of happiness than ordinary people, because he has a secret in his heart that he cannot but tell - "These pictures were all taken by me!"

End of June 2007, 2008 Beijing The final decision on the shooting of Olympic-themed images was finalized. People's attention is focused on the famous photo agency Getty Images (Getty Images), which won the bid, and Getty Images handed over this important task to Asia's chief sports photographer Adam Pretty.

At this time, Adam Pretty had just arrived in Beijing for three months. So far, Adam has participated in the coverage of 4 Olympic Games and won many awards. The 2008 Olympics will be his most glorious experience.

In August, Adam and his colleagues had to complete thematic photo shoots for 55 Olympic sports within two months. Every day, he walked into the studio of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and started shooting about two sports events. He has photographed top Chinese athletes such as Liu Xiang and Yao Ming. He told reporters that he likes Yao Ming the most because he is very humorous and tells jokes from time to time.

If there is no accident, Adam is destined to become the photographer who has photographed the most Chinese Olympic stars during the 2008 Olympic Games.

However, photographing star athletes is not Adam’s forte. Since entering the photography industry at the age of 17, he is best known for his underwater photography. This is his unique skill.

Chinese goddess flying underwater

“I have always wanted to take photos of multiple people underwater to highlight the feeling of flying. Because sometimes when I dive, I feel "It's like flying." In May, he was inspired by watching the Hollywood blockbuster "300", "There is a scene in which a woman is dancing in the water wearing a light and beautiful gauze dress, which looks very mysterious." /p>

The figure of the ancient Greek woman in the movie reminded Adam of the way jellyfish move in the water. "Their movements are very elegant and graceful, as if they are floating or flying. They have a very dynamic and three-dimensional feeling. This also inspired me to take this series of underwater photos."

Chinese women The synchronized swimming team became the subject of his photography. Adam gave the movie DVD to a costume designer named Huang Yue and asked him to make several sets of long white ribbons based on the costumes in the movie. Worried about the effect of the streamers in the water, he found a few friends and posed for photos in the swimming pool as test products. "Sure enough, there are some minor problems with the streamers that need to be modified." In this way, in the back and forth experiments, the effect is close to perfect.

“We went to the national team to watch the swimming pool twice.” Before each shooting, Adam felt like a hunter surveying the shooting terrain. He has a deep regret about choosing the best location: "When shooting swimming events in the Olympics, I put the camera underwater and controlled it from the shore. But to choose the perfect angle underwater, it may take a year of trying. About half the time. And most of the time, it’s probably a failure.”

With only 1 and a half hours of shooting time, Adam had to do all the preparations, sketches and test shots with friends. Show the photo to the five synchronized swimming team members. As usual, he tied an EOS1D camera to his right hand and moved back and forth above and below the water to signal the Chinese team members to take pictures.

Adam told reporters that the shooting time this time was relatively short. Usually during sports photography, he would stay in the water for about two hours or more. The lonely and tense fun of shooting in the water also brought him many beautiful memories.

“At the Asian Games in Doha last year, I was filming the women’s sailing competition underwater. I poked my head out, and suddenly a Chinese female athlete was on the sailboat and asked me from a high place what I was doing. I told her I was taking pictures, and she was surprised, so we started chatting and exchanged email addresses on the water. "On the sea, two strangers met unexpectedly, and Adam still remembers this story.

The university that will never graduate

Adam Pretty is a native Sydney native, his mother is Hungarian and his father is Australian. When he was in high school in Sydney, in order to make money to buy a camera, Adam began to persuade his classmates: "I can get 50-60 Australian dollars for a photo. I scraped together 2,000 Australian dollars and bought a camera."

At this time, he tried to take pictures of his classmates underwater. "You know, boys are very vain when they are young. They want to do something different from others." Little Adam's way of proving himself is to do tricks underwater, because “Not many people were taking photos in the water at that time.” "When I was 2-3 years old, my parents threw me into the water." Adam told reporters about his growing environment, and the atmosphere in Australia where everyone can swim is indeed a good place to become an underwater photographer.

Without knowing how to dive, Adam began to boldly take photos underwater with his middle school classmates. "I held it in, stayed underwater for a few minutes, and then came up." Due to his natural affinity for water, Adam noticed the charm of light changing with the flow of water underwater. Slowly, he forgot about being Overwhelmed by fear.

After graduating from high school at the age of 16, 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 anymore. “I couldn’t cope with it. Work was more important. In class, Studying is worse than taking pictures yourself.” Until now, Adam has not graduated from college. He had no regrets about this.

In 1997, at the age of 20, he joined the "Sydney Morning Herald" and began to do urban news photography. Then he locked on sports projects, went to Allsport, and then entered Gettyimages. Since then, this young man with a passion for underwater photography began to win various sports photography awards, including the 1997 International Olympic Committee Award for Best Sports Photography. In 2004, he won the Walkley Journalism Prize for his work on the Athens Olympics.

“Passion and enthusiasm are the reasons why I can shoot all my life.” In his 30 years of life, Adam has always believed this.