As anyone who reads my ramblings will know apart from the occasional wedding for friends and family my photography is purely a hobby,one that takes up a lot of my spare time but its not my source of income, well last saturday I had a small taste of what life would be like were it a business.
A friend of mine the excellent photographer Garry Griffiths of 353 Photography asked me to help him out with a double booking that he had,it wasn't a mammoth amount of work just photographing 2 Junior League finals in Rugby,just over 6 hours work.So off I trundled met Garry at the first match got the idea of what was required and settled down to do my 2 matches.
Now technically this was nothing that I hadn't done before Team shots, Ref and Captains,Action shots during the match and Presentation and Celebrations at the end, the difference is that always in the back of the mind is the thought that someone is paying for this and you can't afford to get it wrong ,in addition I didn't want to let Garry down.
Well it all got done and i think the shots were ok but I now have so much more respect for the pro's who earn their living at this level,mine was just one day and i felt the pressure what it must be like for those like Garry who do it day in and day out,it all looks very glamorous when you are pitchside at a Wembley final but its the nitty gritty of the daily grind that pays the bills.
So the odd occasion to help a mate is fine but as the day job well I'll leave that to the experts and stick to doing it for fun
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