What an amazing shoot by photographer Erik Refner. Looking at the photography winners for year 2007 and the master pieces of photographs from different geners, this one just grabbed my attention and I wanted to find out not only about the technical qualities represented within the image but also about the event.
This piece of work is not just another piece of reportage, which was the main aim of photographer when he was taking this image, but it won the World Press Photo of the Year 2007.
Erik Refner certainly does have a knowledge about what it takes to make a powerful and meaningful photograph. It is not only photographer's ability to assess the journalistic potential of what he sees in front of him, and his decisions about the exquisite interplay of shapes and the light, where all contributes to a good photograph.
In the photograph we are witnessing all the mental and physical tension of the competitive situation.
Every time I look at the image, I try to picturise the technical part the photographer undertook. The source of light, position to the light, thus where the light is coming from. In this image my assumptions would be that the subject is lit by a strong flash against the backdrop.
The water has a strong sense of sudden release, like the feeling when you let go a breath that you have held for a long time. The light illuminates the exhaustion on the face and freezes every drop of water.
It is a fact that every image a photographer creates is two-dimensional, but some of them as the one I am showing here, are just so real that the feel of two-demension fade away and the viewer feels like he can step into the situation and be a part of it.
http://harlemrunner.blogspot.com/2008/02/running-into-great-dane.html
http://www.archive.worldpressphoto.org/search/layout/result/indeling/detailwpp/form/wpp/start/30/q/ishoofdafbeelding/true/trefwoord/year/2007?id=wpp%3Acol1%3Adat3790
http://www.erikrefner.com/
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