So we’re back at Kent College Junior School today for a Netball and Football tournament.

This was a pretty small one for us, there were about 8 netball teams in the morning, and about 6 football teams playing in the afternoon. Usually, a good football tournament might have 100 or so teams playing. We definitely weren’t expecting much, but we were quite wrong.

Hit the jump for some more…

Being so small, it was quite short as well, which was nice. Seeing as the weather was starting to take a turn for the worst, we were happy to make it out of the as soon as possible really. So, Graham and I hit the Netball pretty hard pretty fast, getting shots of all the teams playing within the first 45 minutes. Luckily, we also managed to get most of the team shots, which they really love in Netball, making up most of our sales from netball.

So then after about 2-3hours, once they’d done all their finals, we got a rush of parents up to buy photos, and then we moved on over to the football, about 100 yards down the road.

The football, we thought, might not even be worth covering. There were 36 kids in total, so each one, on average, would have to spend quite a bit to make it worthwhile for us. So we came up with a slightly different plan. We had to get some real quality shots, and not take as many. This meant anyone who came over to look at the photos would surely want to buy one. And boy did they.

We made twice as much from the football as we did from the netball. What was that all about!

The parents were loving it, because there were so few children, we were really able to devote our time to them, covering requests, getting good ones of the goalkeepers, catching referees…All things we usually wouldn’t have time to do in a big tournament.

And the best part of it was: it was starting to feel less like work, and more why I got into this job in the first place. It was about the photography.

So I got thinking, why shouldn’t it be like this every time? If we’re still making money, and still getting shots of everyone, then why can’t we make it about the photography every time? I decided I was going to bear this in mind in future, so watch out in future posts for some fantastic sports an action photography to come

Anyway, I’ll stop rambling on, and leave you with one last shot for the day:

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