J-södra klara för Allsvenskan (Soccer Jönköping - Östersund)

Yesterday one of the local soccer teams, Jönköpings Södra, was promoted to the major soccer league in Sweden, called Allsvenskan.
Actually the were promoted before their own game against Östersund started.
I usually shoot sports for a Swedish "wired" agency.
And thru that agency. I had an assignment to shoot some pictures with the "headlines" for Expressen. A national daily. And one of the biggest newspapers here in Sweden.
The used my photos on their web. Todays local "headlines".
They also have local editions of their newspaper.
On the front page of the edition of my area. They also used my photos on the front page.

Stadsparksvallen from above #2

This photo was shoot using a Manfrotto light stand with a ball head mounted on it. On top of that a Canon 1Dx with a 17-40/4L USM and a WFT-E6 in WFT-server mode. Connected to my mobile browser thru a "Mifi" so that i could compose the images. After composing everything i used 2 Pocket Wizard plus3 to fire the camera.

More images to come from this game later.

Soccer J-södra - Östersund

Heavy rain - or how to set up a soccer remote. (Husqvarna - Östersund).

First of all.
Due to heavy rain. Yesterdays soccer game was not only delayed with 4 hours. It was also move to another venue.

To set up a remote. You need two transceivers. And a "remote camera cable".
I use two Pocket Wizard plus III.
The most simple way is to put one of the transceivers in the hot shoe of the "main camera". And the other transceiver with the remote camera cable in the "remote camera". Just connect the cable in the transceiver and the "remote terminal" of the camera.
With this setup, as soon as you take a photo with your main camera. You will also take a photo with your "remote" simultaneously.
This means that you will get a whole lot of "crap" in your remote.
Which is the reason that makes me use a custom cable at my "main camera".
I have built it myself. This allows me to decide if i want to "fire" both the main camera and the remote. Or only the main camera.
Meaning i will get less crap images in the remote.

When setting up a remote for soccer.
I use "fix focus". And put some gaffers tape on my lens. To assure that focus will not be changed by accident.

If you want to know how i built the "floor plate". You can find that here:
http://blogg.photo-it.net/2013/04/how-to-make-stable-remote-standbygg-ett.html

When using a remote. You need to have some luck to get a nice picture.
Some games. Nothing will be useful at all.

Also, it is important to have fully charged batteries in both the the remote camera and the transceivers. I use to set my transceivers in "LR" mode. Which means "Long Range".
And of course. If somebody else works with remotes. To check that i wont use the same radio channel as them.

Soccer J-södra - Östersund