KFC Mini-Cricket Provincial festival 6 September

The KFC Mini-Cricket festival on the 6th September was a fantastic event for the kids. There were over 1600 kids there and they all played two games during the day but for me as the photographer it was not as good.

I betrayed a basic rule of any business not only photography and more specifically my public relations job and that is that you have to get to the event early. There was an accident on route and I was 10 minutes late for the event.

Media had already arrived when I got to the event so that made taking pictures difficult because I had to deal with media queries.

The next problem that I had was part three of the brief and that was that I needed to take pictures of the kids interacting with a professional cricketer. The local cricket union decided that they could not send a professional player to the event.

Eventually I had time to take only a couple of photographs and I had to deal with what I had taken. Luckily for me the local media liked the photos enough to use them.

KFC Mini-Cricket Brief Pretoria 6 September 2014

My assignment for the weekend is the KFC Mini-Cricket Provincial festival in TUT university in Pretoria, South Africa. The brief is very simple.

I need to take action photographs of as many kids as possible either bowling or batting. I need to get the names of the kids and the schools that they play for. The media insist on getting the names and schools of the players because the communities that read the papers like the more personal touch of knowing who they are looking at.

The next part of the brief is to take photos of all the branding. This has nothing to do with newspapers but is used for reporting purposes for our client and activation agency.

Part three of the brief is to take picture of the professional cricketers that will be at the event. Get the person to interact with the kids. It is very important to show him interacting part of the client’s focus is to show kids being active and then showing them getting active with their heroes.

The weather should be good with the expected maximum being 28 degrees Celsius. I need to watch out for the glare coming from the fields, I do not have a filter so I will have to make the relevant adjustment’s myself. Luckily the tournament is in the morning so the light and colours should not be too sharp.

Below are some pictures from the previous year’s festivals. I need to do something similar or better. I have an extra year’s worth of experience so I should have learnt something.