“WE WERE Approached by Sky Sports Magazine to perform a photoshoot to celebrate Ryan Gigg’s twentieth season in football. Sports personality photography is really a sector of the profession we have been employed in for approximately 4 years, using the last three spent doing lots of photography for EC. Barcelona.
“I accustomed to work on my own, beginning in the market in 1992. We have spent with assistants I realized there is great potential in creative collaboration with individuals. I began dealing with my creative partner, Pedro, in 2005. The was switching from film to digital and also the workflow likely to be carried out with a digital photographer really intensified Getting someone aboard to utilize meant a significantly simpler workflow and also the partnership. Diver & Aguilar, increased after that.
“A large amount of people try to break the connection lower into digital photographer and retoucher, but it’s more complicated than might almost always there is a genuine combination of creative ideas and concepts. Another benefit of your team is the fact that you are less inclined to be bracketed into one stream of photography, whether it is sports, food, portrait etc. which means we may have a larger portfolio, which hopefully, has our very own visual signature across our work.
"When i first captured pics of Giggs in 1996 and just lately shot him for GQ magazine. He likes our type of photography, therefore the magazine was comfortable with what we should do and our relationship with Ryan and the reps, especially because the concept they found us with was fairly publish-production heavy, plus they most likely felt i was the perfect candidates for this kind of photoshoot
“The shoot happened inside a studio in Manchester. You typically find with football gamers you need to visit where they're based. Football players usually have little time and when they show up to training late, they may be penalized. A studio was always the smartest choice, instead of shooting on location, because it gave us additional control over lighting, that was particularly important because the images would then be composited along with other elements to create the end product.
"We sometimes focus on a concept on our own, however for this shoot we'd a group in the magazine, including a skill director and movie editor, who have been available to describe the kind of image they needed. They wanted a really specific look therefore it was helpful to possess them within the studio to speak their ideas which help liaise with Ryan Gigg's contacts so everything went easily.
"We showed up in the studio quite early to obtain everything setup. and examined all of the lighting to ensure that everything was all set to go when Ryan showed up and there is no faffing around. We'd two hrs with Ryan. He was quite relaxed, generous together with his some time and had really performed a game title the prior evening.
“We were using the Hasselblad H system while using H3D-39, that is a 39-megapixel medium format camera. The Hasselblad has very good quality optics along with a bigger image sensor than your normal Digital SLR, though I'm a massive fan of Canons - we frequently make use of the EOS lDs Mkll as well as an EOS 5D Mkll. However, there is something a bit more special within the clearness and excellence of the pictures in the Hasselblad.
“The lighting was all Broncolor package, with assorted flashheads used through the photoshoot. I was striving to duplicate the sunlight that might be produced by stadium floodlighting and provide a picture and intense publish-created look. To get this done we placed the lights extremely high up as well as situated heads to back-light Ryan and obtain the preferred look.
“In publish-production we merged quite a few stock images to produce the skills for that final shots, once we have a significant large body of labor out of this sector. For instance, the shot with Ryan inside a changing room is really the changing room from Wembley Stadium. In other images multiple elements were composited together - floodlights were obtained from one shot, while crowds and stadium seating were obtained from many other stock images Basically can stay away from stock photography I quickly will, as I love to retain that 'ownership' from the image, but in cases like this it labored well. Time for publish-production varied from image to image, however in total, there is about 2 days of post-production work. Ryan was great to utilize - I've found the greater in the echelons this type of person. the greater appropriately they behave, and that I hope to utilize him again later on." To determine more images, visit: www.diveraguilar.com
MIKE DIVER & PEDRO AGUILAR : A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
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