How an unorthodox Monaco photography challenge yielded memorable results
As he prepares to hang up his lenses after covering nearly 600 grands prix, award-winning sports photographer STEVE ETHERINGTON – aka ‘The Swan’ – set himself a major challenge: to shoot the Monaco Grand Prix on a Hasselblad medium-format portrait camera…
Anybody can take a picture nowadays. You probably spend more time ‘capturing’ (to use contemporary parlance) with your phone than speaking on it. The time is long past when you’d send film to be processed and hope that the prints would arrive without unsolicited advice notes (“Try using flash”) stuck to the results.
Digital technology has changed professional photography too. The Canon EOS R5 MkII can shoot up to 30 frames per second, enabling pro snappers to be more experimental – shooting that much film would have been expensive. Now the chief constraint is editing time.
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