Reebok Stadium Scouting Shoot
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Used to live in a neighbouring town Bolton. The football stadium is surrounded by retail parks and on match day is swamped with cars and people. At 6.30 am on Sunday you can get at it, however I wish I'd access to a cherry picker or some other high vantage point. I can see why many stadia shots are aerial.
The side I shot didn't get the sun on it and if I revisit it will probably be later in the day or even sundown golden hour provided the building gets light on it. Not sure about a night game shot.
Any comments, experiences etc. would be well appreciated.
I like that you included some of the foreground in the first shot. In the other two you chose to include more of the sky - which also pleases me as there was some dynamics in the clouds.
I've been meaning to revisit an interesting building I've shot before. This time I want to use my wide angle lens on it. I'm wondering what lens settings did you use? The wide angle lens, I think, will give a better perspective for both the exterior landscape type shots and for the interior shots. I'm thinking you might have gotten a good look at the stadium if you had a wee bit wider lens available and had hiked up that small hill on the right in shot #4.
This is an interesting building at any rate. Thanks for sharing this Ned.
“Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light, I just make pictures… ” ~ Vernon Trent
Make sure the subject is well lit, these are a tad dark on the structure but if I go back I'll be looking for direct light on the building maybe with a bit of colour. Depends what's available.
Darrell,ice, yes I like no.2 but wonder if the left hand side with the bushes etc. is detracting. No matter where i moved round the site there was a lot of distracting stuff like lighting columns, fences and the like.
I reckon a cherry picker ( a pro once advised this in another forum) would give the best vantage point, I took some close in with part of the building detailed but because it was in shade they aren't nice. Also I remember seeing some shots of buildings done with a camera on a telescopic pole. The idea being a clear shot of the whole building, unless of course you go to the attached extreme lol.
As always thanks for taking time to view and comment.
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