Samo Vidic - Sports Photography

Fascinated by what could be done with different cameras, lenses and film, Samo Vidic soon realized that this could be his dream job. At the age of 23 he started as a professional photographer

Born and raised in Bled, Slovenia, sports photographer Samo Vidic started as an amateur photographer at the age of 17. Fascinated by what could be done with different cameras, lenses and film, he was gaining knowledge really fast and soon realized that this could be his dream job someday. At the age of 23 he started working as a professional photographer. Since 2005 he shoots for Red Bull, traveling the world and taking photos of the world's best athletes. He is team member of Limex images, Getty images contributor, covering different sport events for them. He also works with some leading sport companies and takes photos for their advertising campaigns. His photos have appeared in world’s most prestigious magazines, such as Outside, L’Equipe, ESPN… Samo is Canon Explorer and F-Stop Global Icon. In 2014 he was the winner of the wings category at the Red Bull Illume Image Quest, he is multiple winner of the Slovenian press photo. Check Samo's recent project with Red Bull Photography -

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December 21, 2016

Munich Surfers

Earlier this year Canon Europe contacted me to ask if I would shoot campaign for them in Munich with city surfers. Of course I was immediately interested to do this as it was a big challenge for me. The whole team met up a few weeks before the shoot for a location check, and we decided what we will photograph and how.

The location is quite small and there are not a lot of angles from where you can shoot from. And as well as this we were limited with time as we had shooting permission for just a couple of hours and the set was not closed. That meant that everyone was able to come to watch and surf.

I was shooting the action with the EOS-1D X Mark II which amazed me with blazing fast autofocus performance, 14fps continuous shooting and high quality files with amazing ISO latitude.

I had a great team on site with me! Bor, Aljosa, Jure and Luka helped me a lot and surfers Karina, Alex and Tao did a great job as well.

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