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Sports Photography and the Football Fan
Hi Everyone
I was photographing a football match, or should I say soccer for our American friends, on Saturday at my local club in Dunbar. Now one of the things I find about sports photography and other corporate photography commissions in Edinburgh or throughout Scotland, where you have a strong interest in the subject you are photographing, is how do you separate the professional aspect from the fan or the interested spectator, well you tend to be so focused (pardon the pun) on the subject matter, your professionalism wins over. the desire to get that perfect photo, combined with the need to appear professional and impartial tends to be so strong that you are in concentration mode and you don't say or do anything daft. I have often been so determined to get a good goal photo that I have wanted the side playing my team to score so I can get a cracking sports photo. There are exceptions to the above, when photographing my local team, I will cheer after they score (but only after I have that goal photo and celebration photo of course).
Until next time.
Kind Regards
Colin
www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk
www.edinburghphotographer.com
Infrared Photography Killin Scotland
Green edit on an infrared photo taken last year. A bit different colour edit for me on this one
Corporate Photography, Whisky Blending Event, Edinburgh, Scotland
Hi Everyone
Had a good day on Monday photographing a Whisky Blending event at the Nauticus Bar in leith for Douglas Laing, whisky blenders and bottlers. As a corporate photographer in Edinburgh, I have been getting a wide range of commissioned work these days and this was one of the more interesting ones. I have been to the Whisky Experience venue at the Castle in Edinburgh before but this event was held at the Nauticus Bar in Leith, a fantastic old oak bar with interesting decor. Although I had a brief of photographing the participants with their whisky and few other still life photos, I was also able get creative with my gear, getting used to the touch screen on the Canon EOS R now, although I am still pretty annoyed at the hassle of having to send the photos to my phone as a back up because Canon in their wisdom, decided to only have a one card slot, still it's a great camera.
Hope you like the photos on the site, getting ready for some sports photography in East Lothian and more corporate conference photography around Scotland soon.
Until next time.
Kind Regards
Colin
www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk
www.edinburghphotographer.com
Landscape Photography, East Lothian, Scotland
Hi All
As I start a new year and begin preparations for corporate photography commissions coming up in Edinburgh, I managed a quick half hour of landscape photography on Sunday. The light was OK, although no detail in clouds, which is something I prefer, but at the very least it was dry and good practice for long exposure effect photography. When I moved to Dunbar 13 years ago, I was one of a few photographers photographing the landscape at Belhaven Bridge, near Dunbar, I held a couple of exhibitions, tried new techniques and achieved success in promoting and selling my work, but when I arrived on Sunday, there were at least 8 photographers, with all the latest gear, I may add, all with tripods etc. It made me realise just how things have changed in the last 10 years or so, photography is very popular now, you need to keep a step ahead of the competition. It's a good thing but it also saturates the market and makes it difficult for the good work to shine through, with the many millions of photos on the internet, also it has reduced the ability of professional photographers to earn an income through stock photography. It just means you have to find different ways to promote your product ie social media, word of mouth, networking etc. For this reason, I will keep taking landscape photos but I will try and find new locations and infrared photography will be my main focus, as I still feel this is still a fairly unique area of work for Scotland.
Anyway better go. Until next time.
Kind Regards
Colin
Sports Photography East Lothian and Scotland
Hi All
My first photo job of the new year, apart from some infrared stock photos in East Lothian, I was primed and ready to photograph some junior football at Dunbar. I have started using my Fuji XT2 and 100-400mm lens for outdoor sport. It copes great with the low light, some issues with focusing but I can revert back to my Canon when the light improves. I love photographing at this time of the year. Apart from the lack of light at night time, I like the freshness of it and as a professional photographer in Scotland, it has been over a month since I did a football photoshoot. This was a junior game between Dunbar and Camelon. It ended 0-0 but was still great to photograph.
It made me think of compiling a few tips for football sports photography and here they are below:
1. Dress accordingly, especially in the winter, find ways of keeping your hands warm, ie thin gloves, wear waterproofs etc
2. Take at least at 1/800 speed, even more if possible, to freeze the action
3. Try and keep concentration, especially when there is a possibility of a goal
4. Make sure you are standing in the correct position ie this depends on who you are covering the game for, if neutral then the half way line is best, if for one club, I like either behind the goals or near the corner flag
5. Don't forget the non-football action ie arguments between players, crowd reaction, celebrations etc
The above are just for starters, more later in the year. So with the new year upon us, I am now looking forward to some corporate event and conference photography commissions in Edinburgh and around Scotland. I will keep you posted.
All the best.
Kind Regards
Colin
www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk
www.edinburghphotographer.com