Posts Tagged ‘Tim Mantoani Sports Photographer’

GOLF Magazine – Inventor, Steve Milo

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Inventor Steve Milo

Here is a double page spread from GOLF this month. Steve is an amazing man that invented many golf items long before we heard of them. I love his 5 1/2 Iron, I want to get one for my bag!

Steve came up with a smaller set of clubs including 1/2 irons

Madden 11 – Custom Xbox 360

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010


Today is the release of Madden 11 featuring my photography of Drew Brees. Last night I received an email with these photos of a Limited Edition Xbox 360 that was made for the release. Guessing Drew is getting one of these!

Here is the release tv spot that ran during last weekends Hall of Fame Game.

Wayne Gretzky – NHL Slapshot

Monday, August 9th, 2010

We have been working hard the past few months and one of the projects we can now talk about is our shoot with Wayne Gretzky for NHL Slapshot. We photographed Wayne and a couple of his kids for the game box and packaging. This new Wii game from EA comes with a hockey stick that holds the “Wiimote”. Although I didn’t get to challenge Wayne myself during the shoot, it was fun watching him checking the kids and zigging in a few slapshots. For some reason, I don’t think I would have had a chance!

A special thanks to my assistants Alisal and Andrew who not only drove the gear from San Diego to LA for the shoot with Wayne, but drove that evening to Vegas for a shoot with Randy Couture the next day.

Madden 11 Hits Game Stop

Thursday, August 5th, 2010


Here are a couple of photos of the Game Stop on University Ave in Palo Alto with a giant display of our work on the cover of Madden 11. Football season is just around the corner!

Bill Walton & Scout Bassett Team Up

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

I have been working with The Challenged Athletes Foundation for many years shooting portraits and events. A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of photographing Bill Walton and CAF athlete, Scout Bassett, together in my studio. These images will be used to promote CAF’s annual Million Dollar Challenge, a 620-mile bike ride from San Francisco to San Diego from October 16-22. http://www.challengedathletes.org/compete/MDC_2006.htm

Scout is currently a student at UCLA where Bill led The Bruins to National Titles in 1972 and 1973. They both are avid cyclist and each have custom made bikes by Holland. To learn more about CAF, Scout and how you can help CAF, please visit http://www.challengedathletes.org/ You will be inspired!

Scout Bassett and Bill Walton

A behind the scenes video shot by the very talented John Gefrom. BillWaltonCAF2-desktop 5_FastStart_512K

EA Sports – MMA

Friday, June 18th, 2010

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I am happy to announce my latest project with for EA Sports. I had the unique opportunity to shoot Randy Couture in Las Vegas and then travel to Stary Oskol, Russia to photograph Fedor Emelianenko. Both fighters were amazing to work with and provided us with some great content. Along with fellow Brooks Institute graduate, Jeff Wiant, we shot video for the game release trailer which was announced this week at E3. Jeff edited the piece complete with a custom soundtrack by Chris Hoffee. I have to say the Canon 7D and Mark IV HD video was a blast to shoot. I will be able to release more details from the shoot soon and include some behind the scenes footage and stills. Thanks for reading.

EA Sports “Worlds Collide” from Jeff Wiant on Vimeo.