Football Yesterday

[djaphoto]

Had a really positive afternoon with my local team, I hadn't photographed here before so was a new one for me.

Light was very tricky after the first half ended but I tried my best to get what I could and was pleased with the results.

I was then approached on the exit by one of club members to cover all of their games right down to the kids teams with a view to building them a club calendar up which they can sell, and I'd be paid for my efforts. How do you go about pricing up what you'd charge for such a task? I was asked outright but was slightly taken by surprise so wasn't sure what to say, I said I'd have to look at what needs doing and in what time scale and sort something out.

Came home today from shopping to find an email asking how to go about buying some images from yesterday's game as they had seen them on my website and wanted to purchase, so that was pleasing too.

All in all I think it went really well and our team are through to the quarter finals after a thrilling 6-3 win, so great weekend all in all

Some photos taken from my site, excuse the watermark but I mark all images that are on my site to avoid theft. All images with D300 and 300mm 2.8 on monopod and sat down on a stool.

Cheers

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2. 1 red card and 2 penalties, big challenges were going in

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6. At one point the opposition in yellow were leading 3-2, this photo was when our 5th went in leaving the score 5-3 to us.

7. Yep classic autumn football weather lol, thankfully I had my ebay special £17 rain cover on the 300mm 2.8 so i didn't care.

Thanks for looking

 

[Photodiva]

That's a good outcome! My thoughts - its a bit late in the year to be trying to put a calendar together for 2016! I've been drafting something similar for our club using Indesign and its time consuming. If they want you to design it, provide the images, get it printed and delivered there's a lot to consider. OTOH if its just providing them with images, it takes a good few matches to get enough to choose from but that's the easy bit.

As far as selling images, you really need a simple online way for people to order directly. Don't get bogged down in printing yourself, sending stuff off etc. Zenfolio works for me. You can use your domain name and select a layout that suits you. Easy peasy.

 

[djaphoto]

Cheers diva

Yea when he mentioned it yesterdsy first thing i thought was bit late in the year lol. I think he simply wants the images but like you say even getting those together is enough work but the best bit.

Thanks for the info on selling too, i do need to consider some options that make it nice and simple