Leicester City Women's Football Match!

Leicester City Women's Football Match!

As you all know, I am a big sports fan, especially football. This university year, I've decided to base my projects all around sports. I have been trying to get my way in for football photography at Leicester City Football Club, but there were many difficulties to get me to shadow a professional sports photographer. However, I have been contacting many people and one of them was a success. I got a message on Twitter mentioning me being able to go photograph the Leicester City Women's Football Team. This was a massive achievement for me. This could be my way up to the bigger leagues. Any type of football photography will make me happy and so to photograph my favourite club is an honour. The first game I went to was exciting due it going onto penalties in a cup quarter final. Leicester City won of course!

This is was a different experience for me. Photographing my favourite club was an honour, one of my main inspirations is Michael Regan, who is one of the best sports photographer. If I could get anywhere to his level, I would be happy. Next term, I will be trying to photograph more games and also different sports to get the understanding and the feel of sports photography more.

RM

Walk For Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha

Walk For Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha 

Today was the day; Thousands of Leicester City fans and other fans from other clubs got together and took part in the 5000-1 walk for Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. Leading the walk was the likes of Harry Maguire, Andy King, Matty James and a few more Leicester City Footballers. The tragedy was a shock to us all, not just to the Leicester fans but to the footballing community. 

I arrived into town and head straight to Jubilee Square, this was where everyone gathered to walk. Thousands of fans chanting "LEICESTER TILL I DIE", it showed how close we are as fans and as a footballing family and we can only thank Vichai and his son Aiyawatt for everything they have done for the football club, for the city and all their donations to charities and hospitals. Not only did he get us out of debt, he won us the championship and the Premier League!! Not to mention, we also got to the quarter finals of the Champions League... 

I didn't walk all the way to the ground due to the heavy rain which could've damaged my camera, however I did take some photographs. This wasn't easy but I knew this sort of event would be less likely to happen again. 

All I can say is...

Thank you Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha for everything you have done and achieved with Leicester City Football Club. May you and those who lost their lives... Rest in Peace. 

RM

03.11.18

DMU Men's Football Team - Studio Photoshoot

For my major project, I decided to focus on sports photography. This is something I would love to do in the future. I have 3 modules for University this year, and in all of them, I am focusing on sports, mainly football.

For this project, I decided to keep working with the De Montfort University Men's Football Team. I got to photograph 3 of them in the photo studio. It went both successful and there was a few shots which I could have improved on. I am going to reshoot but this time they will have the full kits, footballs, goalkeeper gloves which will give the photos a more authentic look. 

Here are the photos:

Crystal Ball Photography - 17.10.18

17.10.18

It's been a while since I did some crystal ball photography so I thought I would go to town and see what results I could get compared to the last time I did it. I didn't take many shots this time so I only managed to achieve 3 good enough shots for me to post.

This technique of using a crystal ball and photography is great and so much fun. The results you achieve and the outcomes are fantastic, I would definitely recommend to other photographers to try it and see what they can achieve.