SportsVest Photography

I had a great Time photographing the sports out in Spain. Joe had a brilliant fisheye lens which i loved using. I have an old Yashica lens 28mm and im gong to see if its compatible with my digital SLR. He was telling me about The london camera exchange and I really want to have a look there and see if I can find myself a bargain.




With the events being in much better light or outside my images were so much better and I love the hockey shots especially. The sun was bright the sky was clear and the pitch was in great condition. I used the fisheye , the 200mm and teh 18-105mm to get a range of images that I'm really pleased with. It definietly shown what I am capable of and I do need to invest in more equipment, but now doesn't feel like the right time. I have thought about my degree show a lot an no one can say that my ideas have not developed!

I love taking photos and I need to keep that passion and drive and put it into the right project.Ive written a to do list too. I just need to make my way through it.


1. Email four photos and text to Sean
2. Decide which 5 swimmers to photograph
3. Contact them by making a letter stating what my aim is
4. Look through old negatives of swimmers
5. Go through kit to see if equipment works on digital camera
6. Check with Uni if they have Film SLR
7. Get Black and White films and check paper supply order more if needed
8. Get Big piece of cotton and figure out how to use it as back drop
9. Bring back dads Projector and screen
10. Take photos at swimming
11. Video swimmers doing 50m
12. Write questions for interview
13. Do a prep video of myself
14. Make a mock up with flashing images
15. Ask them to do a 20sec video of preparation
16. Get audio from other events or creative commons sites
17. Print a portrait of each swimmer in dark room
18. Create a sequence for each swimmer and put them in sequence and loop
19. Get headphones for added audio( if necessary?)

Degree show
Business cards- moo cards?
Website- look more into hosting sites and get domain name
Space- Call the uni regarding the space i want.
Portfolio imagery – start looking at printers and the book


Lets get cracking!!

Work Experience

My List is getting ever longer and any experience in any area is valuable. I took photos for Zone 3 triathlon suites and its amazing to see my work on their site



Not all of them are mine but I went back last week and re shot the new range so I'm looking forward to seeing them on the website.









Today I'm photographing some pieces for a knitwear student. I've done my own fashion work but not much for other people so it should be exciting. I'm intrigued by what pieces they'll have and I might borrow a macro lens. I was thinking of doing an intense close up and then a further out shot to show the detail and overall effect. I found something similar in a Sunday magazine article. You couldn't make out what the subject was until you zoomed out making you consider the viewpoint. But I'll see what ideas they have hopefully considered!

So how do i brand myself??!

I need to advertise my skills, to gain work to advertise myself and network. I therefore need to brand myself and have this consistant through my blog, website(which im building) and then business cards. Ive had cards before, my image on one side my details on another. I feel a range of images will be appropriate, depending on the client or the reason im giving them a card. I ask to see peoples cards to get inspiration and look at quality which is also important. You can get them free but you compromise on quality. Ive found a website that seems perfect,


photographic cards....great stuff!!

Lightroom Editing

I have been working through all the images that Ive taken at the matches. At each one im learning so much that I can't even believe how much i have improved! ALthough it is not just about the action shots they are important and I feel that my position on the pitch/court is also really important too. If i want to get there expression then I need to be in a position to get it. I have photographed the american football, swimming, netball, basketball and rugby. I have the Football next week and then Sportsvest. Furthermore I want to get some portraits of the key people that I have photographed or to go along to any other training sessions that I can go to. Hopefully then I can add the Audio, action and portraits all together to create something pretty impressive!

Plus I have some work experience planned, im taking photos for SCR Triathlon suites website tommorrow. Plus John from DE Photo emailed me back about working for them in the future which is fantastic! Its looking good!

Just a quick note, the BJP has re-released itself this month as a monthly publictation. It has most certainly improved its content and the quality of the actual magazine itself is impressive. I didn't get chance to read the weekly publication before the next one came through the door and now I have all month. I'm looking forward to the next one now.

I have also begun my search for jobs. The search is hard as although I feel I have so much to offer its knowing how to get there, I know where I want to end up. I want to work for a major picture agency but Reuters is probably my biggest aim. I just need to know how to get there.....

Degree Show

I have been considering what I shall create for my degree show for some time, it is in the back of my mind from day one. All i know is that I will make images within the genre of sport. After a 1 to 1 with my tutor I have to start editing down my research to create a pack. I have a few photographers to look at and some more photographs to take in order to be ready for the assessment..... I will be working with an array of images taken at various sporting events at the university. I am part of the universities swim team who I have regularly photographed over the last three years. Furthermore I produced a book in my second year which explored what makes a team and I intend to develop the ideas I considered in my research for it. I can develop my photographic skills and take into account sport in a wider context considering sport as spectacle and photography as art. As I have explored other ideas for my degree show, I have come to this idea quite late but have researched into a wide range of photographers who have covered sport..... to be continued

Brian Griffin

Perhaps the name is more familiar to some as a character in Family Guy but he is also one of the photographers that has been commissioned as an Olympic photographer. The NPG will commission other high-profile and emerging photographers each year before the Olympics. Each subsequent phase of the Project will be displayed at the gallery in the summers of 2010, 2011 and 2012. The final display in summer 2012 will include a larger retrospective of all the commissioned work. The NPG has partnered with British Telecom to create a collection of 100 photographic portraits of ‘the people around the UK, both high-profile and those behind the scenes, who collectively are making the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games happen,’ says the gallery. (http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=870603)