FA Cup Success and I froze in front of goal!

Mixed emotions this morning, delighted that the team I was shooting progressed to the first round of the FA Cup, gutted that I had done all the hard work and got the management to agree to let me shoot a couple of shots in the dressing room afterwards and I froze when I got in there.

I was only allowed a couple of quick shots and I have to confess I panicked a bit, without a test shot I had to guess at a setting before I went though the door. My lens steamed up a bit as did my viewfinder, I fired off a couple of shots and had to leave. The biggest confession I guess was that under pressure I didnt do any of the things I know I should have.

Anyway just posting this as I'm going thro the match photo's and still thinking about how much better a shot I COULD have had

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LOL - been there done that!!

I used to wear glasses as well then and couldn't see a damn thing!!

What club is it?

Another chance this weekend as the next round is at Stafford....The team are Maidenhead United

N

Same here.. been there done that..my glasses steem up and lens... I was unprepared first time and just grabbed one of the players shirts from the hook next to me and wiped my glasses and for me its one of them times when auto is used because no time to test or setup.. Still don't know if I had been betetr without flash and high iso..

Camera one hand.. lens cloth other hand...

The one thing that any amount of photographic experience could never have prepared me for, was the wall of Lynx Africa that hit me the minute I walked into that dressing room!

ukhamsterclub wrote in post #2233702
Another chance this weekend as the next round is at Stafford....The team are Maidenhead United

N

Who is your manager / coach now?

spent many a match over there

You did, what as a photographer?........A​nd its a guy called Johnson "Drax" Hippolte.........forma​lly of Yeading

Good effort there Nigel (?) - good luck against Stafford!

I can remember when Johnson Hippolyte scored for Wealdstone against us when they were playing their games at Vicarage Road.