One of the toughest jobs for a sports editor and/or
photo editor during the Olympics is deciding what photos to use in the
paper since there are so many excellent ones to choose from.
Some of the coolest photos come from the underwater
cameras set up at the pool for swimming and diving competitions,
including the women’s 10-metre synchro event in which Montreal’s Meaghan Benfeito and Laval’s Roseline Filion won a bronze medal (photo above). Benfeito and Filion are both former Gazette Amateur Athletes of the Week.
Andrew Das of the New York Times wrote an interesting
article on the underwater photography at the London Games with cameras
set up 3 metres down in the pool with photographers donning scuba gear
to operate them.
“You’ve kind of got to visualize what you want,” Al
Bello, a photographer for Getty Images who is also a certified scuba
diver, told Das. “You have to look under there and see the ceiling or a
clean pool with no swimmer in it and just think to yourself: This is
what’s going to happen, this is where the swimmer’s going to break the
water, this is where a reflection might be, this might be a good angle
where a swimmer might come into your frame.”
Gazette photo editor Marcos Townsend has his own blog, The Lens, at montrealgazette.com, where he selects his Photo of the Day every day.
(Photo by Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press)
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