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cornishboy · 27 Oct 2023

Without wishing to wind any professionals up, if someone was serious about sports photography and wanted to learn how to work live pitchside, how would they go about it? I see it can be a non negotiable for agencies and wondered how the skills were learnt.

Phil V · 27 Oct 2023

cornishboy said:
Without wishing to wind any professionals up, if someone was serious about sports photography and wanted to learn how to work live pitchside, how would they go about it? I see it can be a non negotiable for agencies and wondered how the skills were learnt.

Go out and learn your craft. Practice makes perfect.

Pro footballers learn by playing on parks for years, refs work their way up from parks through lower leagues to the EFL, guess how you can get to shoot, be welcome and learn the craft.

Most local leagues will welcome someone shooting great images.

Or if you already have a portfolio, approach bigger clubs and ask if you can work with the academy, build your skills and you might find yourself pitchside with the first team in no time.

DemiLion · 27 Oct 2023

cornishboy said:
...how would they go about it?

a) Post in the correct forum (Talk Sport)

b) Read all of the numerous threads that already contain that information

c) Go and read the article on @KIPAX 's website about how to gain DataCo accreditation.

DemiLion · 27 Oct 2023

Phil V said:
Pro footballers learn by playing on parks for years,

That's incredibly rare these days. The Ian Wright story is highly unlikely to happen in the modern sports world.

Most players are talent scouted and in academies by the age of 14 - which is why there is such a call at the moment to provide support for those that have been through the system and have failed to sign for a club.

Phil V · 27 Oct 2023

DemiLion said:
That's incredibly rare these days. The Ian Wright story is highly unlikely to happen in the modern sports world.

Most players are talent scouted and in academies by the age of 14 - which is why there is such a call at the moment to provide support for those that have been through the system and have failed to sign for a club.

All those kids were playing on parks when they were 6 though.

The point I was making is valid without looking for players that were still playing park football at 19.

KIPAX · 27 Oct 2023

cornishboy said:
Without wishing to wind any professionals up, if someone was serious about sports photography and wanted to learn how to work live pitchside, how would they go about it? I see it can be a non negotiable for agencies and wondered how the skills were learnt.

As you question is to learn how to work live pitchside I would say YouTube is you friend.... You will need "photomechanic" as your software.. thats your first step and youtube will show you what to do.

cornishboy · 27 Oct 2023

Thanks for your time. I was referring to using laptops, and working with photos pitchside once they have been taken. I will search Youtube as suggested. I chose not to post in Talk Sport as it appeared quiet.
Thanks again

myotis · 28 Oct 2023

cornishboy said:
Thanks for your time. I was referring to using laptops, and working with photos pitchside once they have been taken. I will search Youtube as suggested. I chose not to post in Talk Sport as it appeared quiet.
Thanks again

If you aren't familiar with Photo Mechanic, I recently linked to a video in another thread, that might be useful to get a feel for why Sports Photographers use PM

Any alternatives to Photo Mechanic?

I just did a trial of photo mechanic and did quite like it for culling and rating images. I was wondering if there are any other options to consider? I've got capture one 22, but it is quite slow to generate previews. I'm thinking about getting new software on black Friday, but more likely to...

www.talkphotography.co.uk

Once you get to Jeff Vogan's youtube channel you will find many videos on using PM, most, if not all with a Sports slant., But there are several other Youtube sites that are equally useful and google should find them.

cornishboy · 28 Oct 2023

Great. Thank you

memnonagger · 31 Oct 2023

myotis said:
If you aren't familiar with Photo Mechanic, I recently linked to a video in another thread, that might be useful to get a feel for why Sports Photographers use PM

Once you get to Jeff Vogan's youtube channel you will find many videos on using PM, most, if not all with a Sports slant., But there are several other Youtube sites that are equally useful and google should find them.

This is interesting, thank you.

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