Hi Everyone

I have some significant developments to report on my infrared photography in Scotland project.  I have purchased a new 14mm Samyang lens, which takes pin shark images and gives me a wide angle perspective.  I am also shooting more red images utilising some new software I have discovered.  As a professional fine art and event photographer working in Edinburgh, Glasgow and around Scotland, I think it is always important to try new approaches, no matter what genre you are in, whether you are a wedding photographer in Scotland, or a landscape photographer, or even a conference photographer.  I am using a manual 14mm lens which although forcing me to work harder, giving me more creative control over exposure and focusing and making me think a bit more.  Too much nowadays we are all capable of being a bit lazy and relying on the technology and auto focusing on modern advanced cameras, but you should take time and step back and think about the basic elements of photography.  I think the best photographers are the ones trained on film cameras, as they have had to learn about depth of field, focusing, exposure and other aspects of manual controls.  This enables them to rely on their instinct often in stressful situations, rather than fiddling about with the dials in modern digital cameras, often in conditions of low light.  I think everyone would benefit from whilst not necessarily going back to using film cameras, at least use manual exposure and manual focusing every now and again.   So anyway, some conferences on the the go soon, as the corporate and event photography Scotland season picks again.

So until next time.

Kind Regards

Colin

www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk

www.edinburghphotographer.com

Celebrations at the final game of the season for Kirkintilloch Thistle. Photograph by professional event photographer Scotland, Colin Wright

Hi Everyone

Good to get back into things at the weekend photographing a football match at Kirkintilloch near Glasgow.  As a professional corporate and event photographer working in Edinburgh, Glasgow and around Scotland, it is important that you keep taking photographs at all times, including during vacations and periods of I’ll health and after a second bout of covid, I am now back into the full swing of things and looking forward to some corporate and fine art photography commissions around Scotland, so it was great to do my first football photoshoot for a few months and get a chance to photograph Kirkintilloch Thistle at their last home game of the season, in what has been a good one for them.  
 

One of the things I wanted to chat about is the importance of positioning in sports photography.  It’s often not your fault and you can be limited through time or restrictions.  In rugby it is not as important as the action tends to stay in one area for a while and you can move about a bit more, if you are allowed, according to where the game is concentrated.  I think the best position at football is near the corner flag, just a few metres in to give you site of the goals and I was busy getting some good shots on Saturday, including 3 goals.  However, for a free kick, this restricts the subject you will photograph and only lets you see the goal posts and net, or the striker, not the drama of the situation.  This was where I was situated when one of the Kirki players scored a 25 yard free kick and there was nothing I could do about it.  The best place to stand would have been around the halfway line, so you can catch the ball and the wall jumping, as it is in mid flight before it goes in the net or just as it strikes the net.  Never mind I still caught a decent image of the ball hitting the net and the keeper looking at it.   Next time I will be sprinting to the half way line.

Anyway, until next time.

kind Regards

Colin

www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk

www.edinburghphotographer.com