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The deep smelly photogrpahers pit at portsmouth.. stood on cold concrete for an hr ...
Nice to see how well us types are thought of
The deep smelly photogrpahers pit at portsmouth.. stood on cold concrete for an hr ...
Has anyone been to St Albans? What are the floodlights like?
Got Charlton Athletic tmrw, anyone got the lowdown on The Valley please?
Parking
You automatically get assigned a parking pass when applying using IPBS. To collect your pass pull up opposite the Seat stand where stewards will be handing them out. I was in Trent car park which is 2-3 minute walk from the ground. Traffic was pretty bad after the match so worth waiting around for it to clear.
Lighting Levels
Although floodlights were on, it was a lunchtime kick off so can't really comment on the quality.
Food and Facilities
Enter the media entrance near gate 7, just up from the club shop. Not a big photographers room but a large press room upstairs which has food and hot drinks. Staff were all friendly and helpful and the photographers room had a quick entrance to the pitch.
Free Wifi which was of a pretty decent standard. Slowed down at half time and full time as you can expect but pretty decent. Good 3G signal on Three.
Locations/Shooting Spots
Shooting from both ends of the pitch, behind advertising boards or down either side.
Before the match you aren't allowed in the dugout area, there is a barrier about 5 metres either side which prevent you from getting close ups of the managers.
Hi - I shot an FA Cup game there three years ago vs Arsenal. So it is possible that this has changed....the ground is exceptional for what was a Championship club, really premier league quality in advance of them making it.
You need to get parking sorted through your agency. Once done you have parking onsite. If you are getting there typically early then you won't have any issues, the ground does bottleneck off the A27 at a roundabout flyover but again all of that had cleared once I had wired final images and was ready to leave.
Entrance to the press area was near the entry of the club shop far side of the ground from the car park.
Press area is really nice, not too many cubicles/desks to work at but plenty of space on seats, food was really good.
Wifi around the ground, no ethernet when I was there but that may now be sorted. A fair amount of space to work in between advertising hoardings and spectators. Was OK to go up and do manager shots.
Nice place to work
HTH
Mike
Sorry - can't recall. I was shooting with a D4, and D3s not the brightest I have ever worked at but not too bad.