Evesham Rowing Regatta 2009

2nd May 2009

Saturday 2nd May now holds the record for most photographs taken in one day - 846. I'm not sure exactly how many races there were, but unless any sneaked passed me when I transferred from Abbey Park to Workman Gardens at 2pm, I think I managed to photograph all crews that made it past the boathouse. Another win for digital; there is just no way I could have done this level of coverage with 35mm, at least not without spending a few hundred pounds on film and processing, probably missing shots while reloading, and having to worry about film speeds due to the variable lighting conditions during the day

My biggest problem from last year was identifying crews. The plan for this year was to take a photograph of each crew inbound to my position to obtain the crew number, and then follow up with an outbound shot to capture the faces of the rowers (I apologise to coxes, as in a lot of cases I deliberate composed to focus on the rowers who were facing me, rather than the coxes, who weren't). I deliberately avoided taking "easy" pictures of crews as they returned to the boathouse after racing (with one exception); I feel anyone with a camera can do this, and racing shots are more exciting in my opinion. I felt that conditions called for speed rather than quality(lighting was variable during day - sometimes sunny and sometimes overcast, particularly in the evening), and thus the ISO settings were generally either 800 or 1600, with 3200 being used as a last resort at the end of the day when the light was failing. Shutter speeds generally ranged from 1/800sec to 1/1250 sec, falling off somewhat at the end of the day.

I've now gone through all the photographs and on the whole my strategy appears to have worked. I have managed to work out the crew numbers, either by reference to my inbound photographs or by referencing event and crew colours, on all but the last race of the day (both numbers obscured, and I wasn't sure what event it was). It appears I have usable photographs of most of the crews (there appear to be 23 crews I don't have photographs of, according to the race order, but that still gives me a 90% or so coverage for the day), and on the whole the photograph quality is generally good. I think I can consider the day a success.

The photographs currently uploaded represent about 4% of the total photographs taken; I may upload more if the collection proves popular.

As far as distribution goes I am prepared to supply copies of the files to crews and clubs free-of-charge, subject to the following conditions:
1) In the interests of online protection, Junior Crews must get a parent, guardian, or club official to contact me, and I will supply the photograph to them, rather than to the crewmember directly. This is just as much for my protection as the crew's. All other crews are free to contact me directly.
2) In the interests of saving myself time and bandwidth, I will supply photographs of crews to one crew representative only. I would ask that the representative forwards the photographs onto remaining crew members, where applicable.
3) When contacting me please supply a crew number, or the photograph number (the last 4 digits of the filename), if already on the site. This will aid me in finding photographs.
4) I will supply copies by disk (within reason) to club officials on request, once I have completed the documentation and indexing of the photographs.

A link can be found on the home page of this site to contact me.

After some deliberation, I decided not to return on the Sunday, mainly to allow me concentrate on the Saturday photographs. I apologise for any disappointment I may haved causd by this decision, but as I'm not a full-time photographer, I felt my time would be better spent with the existing photographs rather than adding more.

This collection will be subject to the new distribution conditions from 1st January, 2010, as Evesham Rowing Club have never acknowledged the copies they were sent.

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