World Cup 2022: Great images from Qatar and the story behind the photos

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At this year's World Cup, Getty Images had a squad of much than 50 photographers and operations unit successful Qatar, with a further 20 editors successful London and crossed the satellite editing the images successful real-time and making them disposable to entree wrong seconds.

Here is simply a enactment of 22 large photographs from its World Cup 2022 room - and the communicative down them by the idiosyncratic who captured it.

An aerial changeable of Germany goalkeeper jumping for a header against Japan defender Maya Yoshida successful a assemblage of players from some teams

Dan Mullan: I was positioned successful the stadium catwalk precocious supra the pitch, wearing a harness with 2 cameras and 2 lenses strapped to me, arsenic Neuer was sent up to contention a country successful the dying moments of the match. It's not precise often you get a representation with some goalkeepers successful the frame. I besides similar the information that you can't archer which squad is attacking and which is defending. A precocious space similar this is thing you don't get successful astir shot matches. What makes this framework enactment is the information the shot is successful the air, which means each the players are looking up astatine it. Seeing the players' faces truly adds to the representation - particularly from precocious above.

A silhouette of Croatia skipper Luka Modric of Croatia

Lars Baron: The Croatia players warmed up connected the transportation erstwhile it was fractional successful shadiness and fractional successful sunlight. When the inheritance was successful afloat light, I thought it would beryllium a bully silhouette to capture, truthful I moved into the close presumption to get a bully space connected Luka Modric - who is inactive 1 of the champion players successful the world. I acceptable up my camera connected the item exposer to get his caput arsenic a silhouette - everyone tin inactive recognise it is Modric due to the fact that of the shape.

Marcelo Brozovic of Croatia lies connected the transportation with his backmost to play to support a free-kick arsenic his team-mates successful the partition jump

Lars Baron: When Morocco were awarded a free-kick conscionable extracurricular the punishment area, Croatia were successful a cleanable presumption to exemplify a antiaircraft wall. Most teams present spot a subordinate lying connected the level to halt a debased shot if the partition jumps, truthful this clip I thought it mightiness beryllium bully to absorption connected the subordinate lying down with the boots of the defenders jumping.

Richarlison scoring with a bicycle footwear against Serbia

Michael Steele: This representation of Richarlison scoring his spectacular extremity against Serbia was captured connected a distant camera acceptable up successful the media tribune. Access to the elevated presumption lone happens astatine large shot tournaments and creates caller angles. I had 2 cameras acceptable up and clamped to a obstruction successful enactment with the 18-yard container - 1 with a wider lens showing the supporters and this tighter frame, which I triggered via my handheld camera from my presumption connected the halfway line.

Argentina's Enzo Fernandez curls successful past a diving Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa

Dan Mullan: This representation was taken utilizing a tiny distant camera placed wrong the extremity and fired from my pitchside position. It's a unsocial space that we've been moving astatine for a while. What makes this representation enactment is the Mexico goalkeeper diving successful mid-air arsenic the shot crosses the line. Finding antithetic angles astatine a shot lucifer is precise hard these days, but each present and past thing volition travel on that works - and this is 1 of them. Credit indispensable spell to my colleagues astatine Getty Images who person perfected the exertion down the scenes to let america to seizure moments similar this.

Ghana players successful a corridor wrong Education City Stadium

David Ramos: Getty Images has been the authorized photographic bureau of Fifa since 2009. One of the goals of this narration is to papers what goes connected down the scenes. This representation is simply a wide example. The players each got disconnected the autobus unneurotic erstwhile they arrived astatine the stadium and entered the dressing country dancing and singing. I knew Ghana's accomplishment was peculiar and I decided to hold for them successful a corridor halfway betwixt the autobus and the dressing room, wherever I could mingle with the players. The changeable was casual - conscionable a wide space and fto them spell astir their ritual. It's a pity they did not advancement further successful the World Cup.

A diving Poland keeper Wojciech Szczesny makes interaction with the look of Argentina's Lionel Messi

Matthias Hangst: I was assigned to enactment connected the catwalk for this match. It means you are allowed to enactment connected a stadium roof, secured with a harness and information cables to screen a shot lucifer from a bird's oculus view. It gives a unsocial and antithetic perspective. I was afloat focused connected Argentina's onslaught arsenic Messi is 1 of the cardinal players successful this tournament. It does not hap excessively often that helium ends up successful a clash with a goalkeeper, and I was blessed to screen it with a 400mm lens. The goalkeeper's manus ended up successful Messi's look alternatively of hitting the ball. Messi missed the resulting penalty, but they inactive won the game.

Germany substitutes look dejected - with Kai Havertz holding his caput successful his hands

Shaun Botterill: It is amusive to seizure winning moments, but the hardest portion of the occupation is to photograph a squad erstwhile they exit from the World Cup. After losing the archetypal match, Germany were nether unit to get retired of their group. Kai Havertz had travel disconnected the seat to people 2 goals and beryllium awarded subordinate of the lucifer but they were inactive heading home. You effort to beryllium discreet by shooting connected a longer lens and not hanging astir successful their eyeline excessively long. I was capable to instrumentality a fewer discreet frames to seizure the moment.

Francois Nel: During knockout matches, it is precise important to support an oculus retired for off-the-ball incidents. Before the Switzerland v Serbia match, our editors briefed america to look retired for cardinal Swiss players Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri. They person Kosovar roots and, successful 2018, some players scored and celebrated by forming a double-headed eagle with their hands - a notation to the Albanian flag. This captious accusation makes you much alert of what is going on. The shot went retired of play and Xhaka and Milenkovic exchanged words, truthful I stayed focused connected some players successful lawsuit the concern escalated.

Lionel Messi speaks to children arsenic they hole to locomotion retired of the tunnel

Maja Hitij: There is ever a buzz of excitement successful the passageway erstwhile Lionel Messi is playing, peculiarly for the kids who escort the players. He ever looks to prosecute with the children to marque the acquisition a memorable 1 - sometimes it's similar the different players don't exist. The passageway is an country afloat of tv cameras, truthful we person to beryllium mindful and not presumption ourselves successful the framework for the unrecorded broadcast - it tin beryllium hard to find the cleanable spot. I positioned myself connected the Argentina broadside and waited for Messi to pb the squad from the changing rooms. He greeted each kid, but 1 miss - who was not his escort - sneaked to the beforehand and told him she is simply a large fan. This was the infinitesimal wherever she enactment her thumbs up and helium smiled.

Kylian Mbappe and Matty Cash sprinting on the touchline - the blurred representation suggesting however accelerated they are running

Laurence Griffiths: There are fantastic players successful this tournament, past determination are the mega stars of satellite shot that bargain each the attention! Mbappe of France surely fits that criteria. He was besides the prima performer connected the night, scoring 2 sensational goals, truthful I was looking for a representation to exemplify his accomplishment and pace. I achieved this changeable by utilizing an incredibly dilatory shutter velocity portion panning my camera precisely successful tune with his question - not an casual method to execute specified a crisp and intelligibly recognisable face.

Neymar dances with Raphinha, Lucas Paqueta and Vinicius Jr

Francois Nel: Brazil are known for their flamboyant celebrations erstwhile scoring goals, and determination was a batch of speech astir the solemnisation being disrespectful towards the opposition. When Neymar scored his team's 2nd extremity from the punishment spot, I knew determination could beryllium a peculiar solemnisation to capture, truthful I stayed focused connected him moving towards my country to get this shot. I past noticed immoderate of his team-mates approaching him to observe the goal, truthful I switched backmost to a shorter zoom lens to marque definite I captured each 4 players dancing.

Morocco players tally towards the punishment country from the centre ellipse to observe portion the Spain players basal looking dejected successful the background

Alex Grimm: As specializer sports photographers astatine the World Cup, you tin ever program for a representation earlier you seizure it. However, you cannot foretell the players who volition tally connected adrenaline and those that frost successful daze and disbelief. In these uncommon moments, for conscionable a fewer seconds, each the attraction connected getting the cleanable changeable is mixed with excitement and euphoria - particularly arsenic underdogs Morocco bushed Spain to scope the quarter-finals.

A changeable from down the extremity arsenic Emiliano Martinez dives astatine afloat agelong to prevention Virgil van Dijk's penalty

Patrick Smith: Netherlands v Argentina was arguably 1 of the astir iconic matches successful the tournament. The lucifer went to penalties aft a precise spicy brushwood packed afloat of incidents. My distant camera down the extremity captured this infinitesimal - the archetypal prevention for Argentina that yet helped seal their victory. Martinez was a leader of the shootout and acceptable the code with this astonishing halt from Netherlands skipper Virgil van Dijk.

An aerial changeable of Argentina's players celebrating successful the look of dejected Netherlands players, immoderate lying connected the pitch, aft winning their punishment shootout

Shaun Botterill: I had the accidental to sprout this lucifer from the catwalk, the unsocial vantage constituent we are granted entree to for Fifa tournaments. The vantage is that you get a bird's oculus presumption of the lucifer without having to deliberation astir your presumption connected the pitch. Any changeable of players watching the punishment shootout unfold would person been a large image, but I was capable to seizure Argentina's solemnisation arsenic soon arsenic the lucifer was decided. I wasn't expecting this reaction, particularly arsenic it was a tense game, truthful I americium ever grateful for immoderate luck successful my job.

An aerial changeable of Cristiano Ronaldo connected his knees connected the transportation with his hands implicit his face

Patrick Smith: I was moving from the catwalk and with little than 10 minutes remaining, Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal were connected their mode retired of the tournament. My volition was to travel Ronaldo's each moment. As soon arsenic helium came disconnected the seat successful the 2nd half, helium was either going to power the crippled - possibly people a breakthrough extremity - oregon beryllium eliminated successful what could beryllium his past World Cup match. This representation was a effect of a missed accidental precocious connected and it encapsulates the communicative of Portugal's nonaccomplishment and Ronaldo's idiosyncratic disappointment.

A close-up changeable of Sofiane Boufal and his parent smiling astatine each different and holding hands

Alexander Hassenstein: For this game, I had the accidental to enactment from a precocious vantage constituent successful the media tribune straight supra the benches. Usually, we are positioned connected the tract of play, truthful it was bully to get a antithetic position - peculiarly for this changeable of Sofiane Boufal of Morocco dancing successful solemnisation with his mother. It was a magical infinitesimal arsenic Boufal recovered his parent from the stands and escorted her to the transportation to observe and creation unneurotic for the satellite to see. I was wholly fascinated by the amusive and the ambiance arsenic the 2 danced truthful beautifully unneurotic - a infinitesimal they volition retrieve for the remainder of their lives.

A changeable from wrong the extremity of Harry Kane skying his penalty, with goalkeeper Hugo Lloris diving successful the foreground and players connected the borderline of the country successful the background

Richard Heathcote: This representation captured the decisive infinitesimal successful England's World Cup journey. It was taken with a tiny camera mounted precocious up successful the apical country of the extremity - a unsocial determination that requires a large woody of luck and immoderate customized equipment. We were capable to adhd 2 distant cameras down each extremity and nett cams wrong the goals to heighten our sum with a caller position connected goalmouth action. They are acceptable up a fewer hours earlier kick-off and tin get knocked disconnected equilibrium by a extremity oregon thing that shakes the net, truthful for it to stay successful spot aft the archetypal punishment was fortunate. The quality to spot a infinitesimal without the nett successful the mode draws the spectator successful - arsenic if they are a 2nd goalkeeper successful the backmost of the net.

An aerial changeable of Julian Alvarez poking the shot past Croatia goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic arsenic defender Borna Sosa lies connected the transportation down the scorer

Dan Mullan: For this lucifer I was fortunate capable to beryllium up connected the stadium catwalk among the lighting rigs and looking down connected the pitch. It's a unsocial space that we person been moving hard astatine successful this tourney to bring thing antithetic from our accepted pitch-side positions. You person a batch much state to take your presumption supra the pitch. It enables you to deliberation astir what benignant of representation you would similar to seizure up of time. In the first-half, I was positioned straight supra the Croatia extremity successful lawsuit Argentina scored. Thankfully, they did conscionable that. What makes this representation peculiar is the signifier of the bodies - the afloat stretched limb of Alvarez knocking the shot past the oncoming goalkeeper, each portion Borna Sosa lies connected the crushed having failed to halt the advance.

A close-up changeable of Kylian Mbappe shouting astatine the camera successful solemnisation portion wearing Achraf Hakimi's Morocco garment backmost to front

Michael Regan: At this World Cup, Getty Images was fixed exclusive entree to the transportation straight aft the game. We photographers effort to seizure the players' reactions erstwhile emotions are astatine their highest, and images similar these let players to link straight with the fans done the lens of a camera. I knew Mbappe would present a large representation - each I needed to bash was drawback his attraction by shouting "Yeeesssss Kyliaaaaannnnn!" It seemed to bash the instrumentality arsenic helium gave maine the cleanable changeable by celebrating close down my lens. He's wearing the Morocco garment of his PSG team-mate Achraf Hakimi, which is simply a bully touch. For me, this ocular sums up the excitement that builds up earlier the final.

Lionel Messi of Argentina walks to the signifier successful the trophy presumption aft the Fifa World Cup last triumph against France astatine Lusail Stadium (photo by Matthias Hangst)

Matthias Hangst: What a final! Messi starring Argentina to satellite glory with different astonishing performance. This representation places the absorption wholly connected Lionel Messi, perfectly placing him successful the spotlight moments earlier walking connected signifier to assistance the World Cup trophy. I was positioned successful an exclusive presumption successful the catwalk of the stadium extortion to get this unsocial space of the world's top player.

Lionel Messi of Argentina celebrates with the World Cup trophy aft the team's triumph against France astatine Lusail Stadium (photo by David Ramos)

David Ramos: This representation of Lionel Messi connected the shoulders of Sergio Aguero is reminiscent of the scenes successful 1986 arsenic Maradona of Argentina held the World Cup trophy aloft successful the Azteca Stadium successful Mexico. This clip determination was a infinitesimal of drama arsenic Messi had to debar hitting his caput arsenic they passed nether the crossbar!

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