Category Archives: Recent shoots

A-League Round 3

This was an afternoon match, starting at 3pm. The weather was beautiful with bright sunshine. However, this posed a real conundrum for shooting position. The sun was lighting half the stadium when the match started. If you positioned yourself in the shade then then shooting players in the sunshine meant either the image is going to be a silhouette or the background was going to be totally blown. If you positioned yourself in the sun then if the player was in the shade then you’re going to be shooting into the sun with the light flaring into the lens. Anyway, here are the images.

U15/16A Ashburton – Round 15

A beautiful morning for soccer. Here are the photos.

Another season of A-League starts

Thursday night was the opening match of the 2010-11 A-League. Here are some images of the new 11th team, Melbourne Heart playing the Central Coast Mariners. In the last minute of injury time the Heart goalkeeper decided to try to score from a corner kick set play. Pretty cool if he had done so. Full set of images here.

AEK Athens v Glasgow Rangers @ Sydney Football Stadium

I had a meeting in Sydney with the promoter of the Sydney Festival of Football so I took the opportunity to shoot the AEK Athens v Glasgow Rangers match at the Sydney Football Stadium. Have a look at the images here.

Boca Juniors v Melbourne Victory

Shot this pre-season friendly tonight. Used a new monopod tonight – will post more info about this shortly. Meanwhile, enjoy the action.

FFV shoot at AAMI Park

Shot some images for the Football Federation Victoria today at the new AAMI Park. It was a glorious winter day with bright blue skies. The brief was to highlight the stadium with Australian Matilda’s captain Melissa Barbieri, former Socceroo Danny Tiatto and FFV CEO Mark Rendell. I won’t say what the images are going to be used for yet but it was a good opportunity to do strobist techniques. I lit the subjects with a SB800 on a light stand bounced off an umbrella. The flash was triggered with an SU800. I trusted the D3′s metering and set it to A mode f11 with compensation set at -0.7 to give the sky a rich blue and set the flash to +2.0 to balance the foreground with the background and give a high-key feel to the image. The first 3 images are scouting shots and the bottom image is an example image shot with these settings. More images here. Let me know what you think. PS – this is what the images were used for.



Liberian family day

Shot a special event for Liberian refugees for the Football Federation of Victoria. Slideshow. The girls played a game called Kickball – like baseball with a round ball and the boys/men had a regular game. Tony Dunkerley, the president of the FFV attended.

U15/16A Ashburton – Round 8

Beautiful light from big black storm clouds today and a muddy pitch. Slideshow.

U15/16A Ashburton – Round 7

Overcast and gloomy afternoon for soccer. Slideshow

On the Cover

The current issue of Goal Weekly has a cover with my image from the socceroos training session. It looks great – tabloid size