The second of the London Rollergirls doubler header bouts for Season 3 took place on Saturday night (featuring Harbour Grudges vs Steam Rollers and Ultraviolent Femmes vs Suffra Jets). I was looking forward to shooting this bout as I thought the last lot of photos were ok but could have been better.
The first thing I noticed was there seemed to be a lot more photographers this time and getting space in the first corner wasn't as easy as last time. The LRG were allowing photographers into the middle of the track to shoot from a box which they are marked out but the photographers were only allowed in and out during time outs or at the end of the period. I think I was pretty much the only one to say they wanted to try shooting from there in advance but on the day, lots of other photographers also wanted to try it too. I managed to get in for the start of the first bout and I loved it. It allowed me to get closer to the action which I've struggled to do before and it was a lot easier to track the skaters round the corner and get some good shots of them in motion. A lot of the photographers seemed new and seemed to ignore/not know/not understand a lot of the things that myself and some of the regulars had been told which was a bit weird to watch.
I'm a lot happier with these photos than before. I hopefully have more variaty in the shots and they make for much better sets.
The bouts themselves were great and extremely close/exciting.
The first thing I noticed was there seemed to be a lot more photographers this time and getting space in the first corner wasn't as easy as last time. The LRG were allowing photographers into the middle of the track to shoot from a box which they are marked out but the photographers were only allowed in and out during time outs or at the end of the period. I think I was pretty much the only one to say they wanted to try shooting from there in advance but on the day, lots of other photographers also wanted to try it too. I managed to get in for the start of the first bout and I loved it. It allowed me to get closer to the action which I've struggled to do before and it was a lot easier to track the skaters round the corner and get some good shots of them in motion. A lot of the photographers seemed new and seemed to ignore/not know/not understand a lot of the things that myself and some of the regulars had been told which was a bit weird to watch.
I'm a lot happier with these photos than before. I hopefully have more variaty in the shots and they make for much better sets.
The bouts themselves were great and extremely close/exciting.
Harbour Grudges vs Steam Rollers
Ultraviolent Femmes vs Suffra Jets
The rest of the photos from the Harbour Grudges vs Steam Rollers bout are here.
The rest of the photos from the Ultraviolent Femmes vs Suffra Jets bout are here.
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Good stuff. Shooting from the middle isn't particularly easy.
ReplyDeleteGreat shots, thanks for sharing with those of us who are a little more photographically challenged! Derby provides awesome material, but not the simplest to capture. :)
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