Timo Lampinen, the head of the photo agency, agrees with Kristiina Mäkelä.
Cameras had been set up at Eugene’s triple jump location right on the ground. Images were captured with them using a remote shutter release. PASI LEISMA
Triple Jumper Kristiina Mäkelä strongly criticized the perspective of the triple jump venue from the World Championships in Eugene. Mäkelä himself had also ended up with the same pictures.
Mäkelä wondered on his Instagram account how the race organizer gives permission to set the camera to film the intermediate jump of the triple jump.
– Where every athlete is forced to open their legs and the lens only focuses on one place? And the mainstream media still publishes these pictures, Mäkelä wrote.
– How would you feel if someone at your workplace took pictures of your crotch and published them in a magazine?, Mäkelä continued.
The manager of the Finnish department of the photo agency All Over Press Timo Lampinen understand Mäkelä’s criticism.
In Lampinen’s opinion, the criticism was justified.
– I agree with Kristiina Mäkelä. I thought the angle was a bit odd.
“Was the cameraman thinking – hardly”
Lampinen has been in the industry for 27 years. He estimated that the photographer’s idea was to get a good picture of the intermediate jump.
– The cameraman’s idea was probably to see what his movement is like and how to stretch between jumps.
In Lampinen’s opinion, the time-lapse photo could have been taken from a different angle.
– Maybe you could have gotten a similar (picture) from some other angle and maybe someone else could have told you about it through the picture.
– If that leap was wanted here, I don’t know if that was the right angle. Could it have been taken from another angle? Had the photographer thought about this issue at all – hardly. He just wanted a good picture showing this defect.
There are cameras in different places in value competitions. Some are on the surface of the track, sometimes the photographer is near the jumping spot, but sometimes the camera is left there and the photographer films the sports performance through it.
This may have happened in the picture that Mäkelä criticized. Such pictures are not taken at the Finnish Games, because the remote shutter is used much less often.
– Photos are taken in an absolutely monstrous amount, from different angles and all kinds of frames are taken – whether it’s a male or female athlete. Hundreds of thousands of photos have probably been taken of such competitions. It may also pass through those that are not so appropriate.
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