Choosing the right position #2/World junior championship tear sheets

As i have blogged about earlier.
Sometimes choosing a different position than the other photographers can pay of really well. (You find that post here:
http://sportskjutaren.blogspot.se/2013/07/choosing-right-position.html).

During the World junior championship, we as photographers was first allowed to use the empty players booth.
Later on, out of some reason, IIHF, decided that we only was allowed to use the photographers booth.
It got so full with my colleagues, that i could hardly work from there.
So i decided to get up at a higher "spectators level", and not only to to that.
But to also walk over to the other side of the arena to get an even more different position.
A position that i was the only one to use.

First, the picture as i sent it to All Over Press.

Then how Expressen, (a major Swedish daily), used it the day after.

Overall, i had several of my photos published by Dagens Nyheter (also a major Swedish daily) on their web, only from the final i had 4 photos published.
So far it´s truly my biggest achievement in my career.

Choosing the right position.

At my last soccer job, i had a whole lot of competition.
That´s one of the things that comes with shooting big events like a quarter final in UEFA Women´s Euro.
If i counted it right there was at least 4 competing "wired agency's", with at least 6 photographers.

This means that the major newspapers get a lot of images from key situations in games like this.
So in order to get a image published, it needs to stand out enough from the others.

When choosing position, it´s a whole lot about anticipating what will happen in the game. Sometime it works good, sometime your "guessing" is really bad.
In order to get a different angle from the other photographers, i choosed a position at the "long side" while the most photographers chose the "short side".

This time my choice of position paid of really well.
I had the perfect angle when Denmark made their first goal.
Since Denmark was told to have no chance to win this game, but did just that. (after deciding the game with penalty shoots after both full time and overtime had been played).

The Swedish newspapers made a quite big thing about this game.
And Expressen, on of the major national newspaper published one of my pictures.