gibtheo
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Hi guys, I'm fairly new to this forum so just to give you all a little background info...
I'm mainly a commercial photographer based in the studio but I try to do as much sport as I can, I've covered Super League Rugby, Championship football and last year I was club photographer for York City FC. I know what I'm doing with the kit I have and up to now all of my work has been for the clubs themselves so apart from sending the odd image for web at half time, I've never done any live wiring. However, I'm at the point where I believe my images and skills are good enough to approach agencies and try to get work this way. (I have recently relocated to australia so don't worry, I won't be stepping on any toes!!)
This leads me to my questions....
Can anyone recommend a decent, fast card reader that doesn't break the bank? I currently download images to my laptop at half time (when shooting football/rugby) using a really cheap one, it works fine but it's slow and it has such a long cable I'm considering tying it up and sticking to the back of my laptop with velcro or something!
I also use my iphone set up as a personal wifi hotspot to connect to the internet to email the odd photo that I need to. Does anyone know of any problems with doing this? Should I get a dongle for internet access?
Last question, it may be subjective, and some of you will probably know what your agencies etc prefer, but personally, do you get more satisfaction from getting a really nice action shot or a good cele shot? ie. if you had to choose between say getting the shot of a footballer heading the ball past the keeper to score or getting a shot of him as he ran towards you celebrating, what would you choose? Hopefully you'd get both but you know what I mean!!
I personally get more satisfaction getting the action shot but most of the feedback I've got is that the cele shots make more of an impact on the fans etc.
I'm mainly a commercial photographer based in the studio but I try to do as much sport as I can, I've covered Super League Rugby, Championship football and last year I was club photographer for York City FC. I know what I'm doing with the kit I have and up to now all of my work has been for the clubs themselves so apart from sending the odd image for web at half time, I've never done any live wiring. However, I'm at the point where I believe my images and skills are good enough to approach agencies and try to get work this way. (I have recently relocated to australia so don't worry, I won't be stepping on any toes!!)
This leads me to my questions....
Can anyone recommend a decent, fast card reader that doesn't break the bank? I currently download images to my laptop at half time (when shooting football/rugby) using a really cheap one, it works fine but it's slow and it has such a long cable I'm considering tying it up and sticking to the back of my laptop with velcro or something!
I also use my iphone set up as a personal wifi hotspot to connect to the internet to email the odd photo that I need to. Does anyone know of any problems with doing this? Should I get a dongle for internet access?
Last question, it may be subjective, and some of you will probably know what your agencies etc prefer, but personally, do you get more satisfaction from getting a really nice action shot or a good cele shot? ie. if you had to choose between say getting the shot of a footballer heading the ball past the keeper to score or getting a shot of him as he ran towards you celebrating, what would you choose? Hopefully you'd get both but you know what I mean!!
I personally get more satisfaction getting the action shot but most of the feedback I've got is that the cele shots make more of an impact on the fans etc.
. Kind regards Graham.
