Seven Days : Day Seven

So, It's all over... "Seven Days on accreditation" In the seven days I've spoken to paper editors, photo desk people, organisations, promoters, governing bodies and professional photographers about accreditation and the UK Press photographers card and have come up with some pretty useful information...

The Facts!

• Accreditation and the UK press card are VERY different things.
  
• Not just anyone can get a UK Press card, and rightly so.
• Accreditation to shoot a concert is generally obtained from PR agencies.
• Mainly, it's about who you know. (sad but true!)
  
• Three minutes isn't long when you have an artist to shoot!
• I've totally loved every minute of it, thank you.

So, Tuesday night thanks to Emma and Tom at AEG live / Indigo / The O2, saw me with three minutes to snap a capture of Henry Rollins at Indigo I had to use a longer lens (400mm) and, as my Canon 30D just does not like me pushing ISO was set on 200, could have gone to 400 to bring the shutter speed up, but am a loser and failed under pressure - at least I know what I did wrong, right?.. So, yeah, ten shots from the left, ten shots from the right and about five from the middle... Absolutely loved it (A photo below)

I was able to get accreditation for the RedBull air race as you've seen in previous posts, that was through work (Thanks Kev) and was a real highlight of my "photog career" thus far... Shooting along side some really amazing photographers (Thanks Marcus!) and watching them work was, quite frankly, bonza!

Well, that concludes "Seven Days to accreditation"... I'd just like to thank some folk...

Phil and Joanne Turner at The British Press Photographers' Association
Emma and Tom at indigo / AEG live / Outside Org
Rita at Fishmouth for letting me shoot any gig I liked

Thanks all of you very much. Hope to see some of you soon!

Till next time!!

Sime