Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert
Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert
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100 The <strong>Digital</strong><strong>Camera</strong> inTerview<br />
All images: Clive Mason (Getty Images)<br />
profile<br />
* CliveMason is aleading<br />
sports photographer for<br />
the Getty images agency,<br />
which he joined in 1994.<br />
* He’s worked in many<br />
different sports, but has<br />
a particular reputation for<br />
football, cricket and f1.<br />
* Mason’s awards include<br />
Sports photographer of the<br />
Year in 2002 and the 2008<br />
Sports picture award.<br />
Clive<br />
Mason<br />
From surviving on Sugar Puffs to shooting the world Cup,<br />
Clive Mason knows the highs and lows of sports photography.<br />
he shares some winning tips with Geoff Harris<br />
<strong>Digital</strong><strong>Camera</strong> July2010<br />
Most sports fans who are<br />
intophotographywill<br />
have looked enviously<br />
at the proshootersata<br />
major event, hunkered<br />
down in choicespots<br />
with their monopods and massive lenses.<br />
But what’s it actually like? how does a keen<br />
amateur getstarted and turn it intoaliving?<br />
with the worldCup well underway,we<br />
grabbed the chance to speak to Clive Mason,<br />
top-gun sports photographer at Getty images.<br />
Sincejoining Allsport/Getty images<br />
in 1993, Clive has photographed just about<br />
every major sport, including cricket, rugby,<br />
the Americas Cup,both winter and Summer<br />
Olympic games and, since 1999, has been<br />
following Formula One. As with many top<br />
pros, Mason’sinitial interestinphotography<br />
was encouraged by his father.<br />
“i made my first print at the age of six,<br />
of a 100-year-old tortoise that is still living<br />
to this day,” he says.“My father was in the<br />
Foreign Office and we were posted to the
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