Photography

PHOTOGRAPHY — ABOUT US

Interpretation of briefs and telling stories via still images is simply our goal as photographers.

OUR PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES

The Slattery Media Group are experts in sports photography and are the official photographer of the Australian Football League. We know and understand football and are dedicated to providing the most comprehensive images and coverage of the game.

Working with a number of clients across a range of industries, we provide photographic services including:

  • Commissioned shoots
  • Photo archiving
  • Negotiation of rights and copyright
  • Photo production including retouching

NEW & NOTEWORTHY

Highlights of a Season

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The 2010 AFL Annual Report arrived back from the printer late last week and has been distributed to AFL clubs and stake-holders.

The AFL Annual Report is a key publication produced by the Slattery Media Group on behalf of the Australian Football League each year.

Writing in the AFL's Annual Report, Mike Fitzpatrick, Chairman of the AFL said "attendances, club membership, television and radio audiences, and digital media traffic maintained the AFL’s standing as the most popular sports competition in Australia and, in terms of average crowds per game, the third most-attended domestic league in the world,"

The annual report also showed the game was in exceedingly good health in 2010, with:

  • a record number of people attending games from the pre-season through to the finals – 7,470,606.
  • an average crowd per game of 36,908 making the AFL the third most-attended professional sports competition in the world, behind America's National Football League and Germany's Bundesliga.
  • the audience numbers for the Toyota AFL Grand Final and Grand Final Replay, 3,639,971 and 3,522,652 respectively, which made them the year's most-watched and second most-watched sporting events in Australia.

Looking ahead, Fitzpatrick said the AFL's 2011 agenda included finalising the new broadcast rights and collective bargaining agreements, and developing a new financial strategy for 2012 and beyond, in which changes to the AFL's current equalisation and revenue-sharing policies may be introduced.

The AFL Annual Report can be viewed online at afl.com.au

Our photos on ONE

SMG photographer Michael Willson recently created an inspired montage (because everybody loves a good montage) using the best photos from our 2009 AFL season collection. Adding a bit of Elbow to the mix (the band, that is), he presented the package to Channel Ten/ONE who then used it as part of their NAB Cup Grand Final broadcast. It will now be used by ONE on an ongoing basis throughout their coverage of the 2010 home-and-away season. Our aflphotos.com.au server bulged to excess after the promo was first played, as viewers all logged at once on to see where these great images had come from.

Hopefully season 2010 provides many more great image moments for our photo team to capture.

See our photo collections here.

New AFL season, new photos website

AFLPhotos.jpg Footy's back, at last! Just in time for tonight's game, marking the start of 2010's NAB Cup, The Slattery Media Group relaunches photography website, AFLphotos.com.au. With a new design, improved format for viewing images of AFL games, players, personalities and events, and over 130,000 images in our archives, the new site allows fans the choice to view images in a gallery or sorted by clubs, the latest events and most popular.

Check it out at aflphotos.com.au. We'd love to hear what you think; let us know by emailing askus@slatterymedia.com.

PHOTOGRAPHY CASE STUDIES

The Thoroughbred - Horse Dentist, Mark Burnell
The Thoroughbred - Horse Dentist, Mark Burnell

CLIENT: THE SLATTERY MEDIA GROUP - THE THOROUGHBRED MAGAZINE

A feature article on-well known horse dentist, Mark Burnell, the photographer was required to capture Burnell going about his day to day activities as well as capturing a strong sense of his character.


Sean brings fourteen years of photographic experience to The Slattery Media Group, having been a senior photographer at leading photographic agencies in Melbourne since 2000. Sean can boast coordinating photography for the Australian Football League, Tennis Australia, Swimming Australia, the Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games among his many achievements. Highlight events include the Olympic Games; Commonwealth Games; Pan Pacific Swimming Championships; AFL Season and Grand Final; Australian Open Tennis; Formula 1 Grand Prix and 500cc Motorbike Grand Prix. His comprehensive knowledge of the photographic industry and familiarity of state of the art technology make him an excellent leader of the team.

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