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Lots of rugby shots from this weekend. Here's a few more.
Harlequins decided to see if it was possible to get 50,000 people into Twickenham for a standard Guinness Premiership match. And crikey, that's exactly what they did!
Twickenham Stadium is amazingly professionally run. I collected my accreditation and then had my bag searched and tagged at the gate to confirm I was allowed in. There's a dedicated photographers' room under the stands with WiFi, sarnies and tea, plus a dedicated photographers' liaison lady who briefed us, showed us noobs around, and gave us our bibs. Unlike other "normal" league stadiums, there's no moving around during the game and I had to sit in the right area to match what it said on my bib. I elected to shoot from the 22 line for the first half, and had arranged to shoot from the end Leicester were attacking in the 2nd half (involved a bib swap).
In previous games I've struggled with my laptop taking too long to download pics at the end of the game, and Lightroom running really slow. Today instead I decided to have the laptop running all the time during the game and swap CF cards to download during the game, download from one card whilst shooting on the other, swap, format, shoot etc. This worked really well, and I had all the pics ready to analyse within 5 mins of the end of the game. I'd already selected a number of pics during the game as well so had 7 or 8 already chosen.
So, good news on that front. However, the tricky bit is working out who's who. I need to caption the pics (e.g. "Toby Flood of Leicester Tigers kicks a penalty to take the score to 16-7 bla bla bla). I can recognise most of the main players, but dont know the rest well enough to recognise straight away. I did a few "back shots" after each move/play to get the players as they ran back into position which worked well. Still some work to do on this front though. Still, I was sorted and uploaded within 30 mins of the game ending.
The story of the game I decided was the huge crowd, so I wanted to get a bit of that sorted out as well as the normal game shots.
The game ended 26-all after an amazing last few minutes when Harlequins ran in a try and a superb conversion from the touchline to equalise. All this happened at the wrong end of course!
#1 Before the game started I decided to get some shots of the dancing girls coming out of the tunnel.
#2 And carefully positioned myself for Harlequins coming out to get the crowd in the background and the England Rugby logo as well :smashin:
#3 And some game shots...
#4
#5 Surprise catch
#6 Croft running in for a try
#7 Flood on top form as usual
#8 Getty's version of this got on the BBC's front page. Grrr
More experience in the bag. Met a nice bunch of other togs and had a few good chats. It's getting easier but some way to go yet...
Tobers
Harlequins decided to see if it was possible to get 50,000 people into Twickenham for a standard Guinness Premiership match. And crikey, that's exactly what they did!
Twickenham Stadium is amazingly professionally run. I collected my accreditation and then had my bag searched and tagged at the gate to confirm I was allowed in. There's a dedicated photographers' room under the stands with WiFi, sarnies and tea, plus a dedicated photographers' liaison lady who briefed us, showed us noobs around, and gave us our bibs. Unlike other "normal" league stadiums, there's no moving around during the game and I had to sit in the right area to match what it said on my bib. I elected to shoot from the 22 line for the first half, and had arranged to shoot from the end Leicester were attacking in the 2nd half (involved a bib swap).
In previous games I've struggled with my laptop taking too long to download pics at the end of the game, and Lightroom running really slow. Today instead I decided to have the laptop running all the time during the game and swap CF cards to download during the game, download from one card whilst shooting on the other, swap, format, shoot etc. This worked really well, and I had all the pics ready to analyse within 5 mins of the end of the game. I'd already selected a number of pics during the game as well so had 7 or 8 already chosen.
So, good news on that front. However, the tricky bit is working out who's who. I need to caption the pics (e.g. "Toby Flood of Leicester Tigers kicks a penalty to take the score to 16-7 bla bla bla). I can recognise most of the main players, but dont know the rest well enough to recognise straight away. I did a few "back shots" after each move/play to get the players as they ran back into position which worked well. Still some work to do on this front though. Still, I was sorted and uploaded within 30 mins of the game ending.
The story of the game I decided was the huge crowd, so I wanted to get a bit of that sorted out as well as the normal game shots.
The game ended 26-all after an amazing last few minutes when Harlequins ran in a try and a superb conversion from the touchline to equalise. All this happened at the wrong end of course!
#1 Before the game started I decided to get some shots of the dancing girls coming out of the tunnel.
#2 And carefully positioned myself for Harlequins coming out to get the crowd in the background and the England Rugby logo as well :smashin:
#3 And some game shots...
#4
#5 Surprise catch
#6 Croft running in for a try
#7 Flood on top form as usual
#8 Getty's version of this got on the BBC's front page. Grrr
More experience in the bag. Met a nice bunch of other togs and had a few good chats. It's getting easier but some way to go yet...
Tobers