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Made In Wales Ian Cook's Olympic Adventures - part 9 of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

by Ian Cook Published 01/10/2012

How were the venues' lighting levels? What ISO did you employ indoors?
vAll the venue lighting was spot on; all had lighting set to 5200 Kelvin, which made it really nice. 1600 ISO was mainly used for action shots.

One of the more amusing incidents arose when the Daily Express put the Dutch bronze medallists on their front page instead of the victorious GB team (they did look a bit alike, posh totty in bowler hats!). The error was put down to an agency mis-captioning their submissions (there was more than one). How did you go about captioning in the heat of battle, when did you find time to do it before filing your images? How did you find out the names of competitors?

I had a bit of help on this; for example, every athlete either has their name on the front or at least a number, so I got this in the image or shot images around a sequence with the number showing, so I could use it later for captioning. The problem arose during the equestrian events.

I'm not an equestrian fan at all and could not tell you the names of any competitors. So at every venue they had computers where information could be printed off so you could filter by day, event, competition, etc and then print off sheets for captioning. When I was captioning the equestrian I actually put the rider's name in Google and clicked on images and basically differentiated them that way. It was a bit long winded but it worked and I think my images went out with the correct captions. Also I used the iPhone app which had a list of the events and players/competitors/athletes. So there were plenty of options to get hold of information.

Great Britain's Beth Tweddle on the uneven bars. She eventually took Bronze.

How did you go about filing your images back to base, how long did it take on average?

I only filed when I was in transit between venues as I was on my own, so more time could be used to concentrate on shooting. On the transport buses, where I had 40 minutes of dead time, I wired about five images (all there was time for), the rest would just stay on my laptop. When I got back to my campsite I would sit and chill out with a beer and start to do some more, but not many, as I wasn't getting back to the campsite until approximately one in the morning.

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