You've outdone yourself again Neggie, I had to watch the VODs for this, but you really captured the feel of the event well, MBC look crushed to be so close but so far, and of course Flash looks like ever happy champion that he always seem to be these days.

I love the massive edit section, the close ups of Flash and the trophy look spectacular.

I'm just sad I didn't get to be on vent at the time, oh well, next round finals.

barth

Ireland1272 Posts

April 04 2010 22:09 GMT

#62

Thank you <3 I love your accent.
+ Show Spoiler +

please merry me

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

April 04 2010 23:05 GMT

#63

On April 05 2010 02:06 Mystlord wrote:
Great work NeverGG!

Ridiculously long finals. 5 hours for 7 matches... I was struggling to keep my eyes open by the end :<

Of course Jaehoon vs Flash got me all excited so

<3 all the effort you put into these! I'm just wondering... I know a lot of photographer friends of mine work under the principle of "shoot and pray" and end up with about a thousand photos that they end up having to go through. Is that the case with you too?

I usually work to this plan;

+ Alternating between shoot, charge, (I need to buy a spare battery since I'm paranoid about lack of power.) upload to laptop, edit, post until the event is over.
+ For a finals I like to do three to four sections of shooting: Pre-event, (Opening act.) During event and post. (Plus any trophy/winner mini shoots and massive edits.)
+ Since most pre-events can be shot with multiple chances there's no need to take a large amount of photos. Just two shots per photo op incase of blurriness or other negative factors.
+ Because shots with people you can't control (aka. in a photo shoot session.) are usually 'one chance' specials far more photos are taken during the event than before it.
+ The most photos are taken during the post-session because the trophy kiss shot etc are the most important shots for capturing the mood. These are also 'one chance.' photos usually.

I hope that makes sense. For a finals I tend to take about 1000-1500 shots which are usually whittled down to about 40-50 photos plus ngs I deem interesting enough for editing via PS7 and then posting.

Yggdrasil Leaf

221 Posts

April 04 2010 23:28 GMT

#64

Let me use my first post, after several months of lurking, to thank you.

Awesome work

WaveMotion

United States147 Posts

April 05 2010 00:00 GMT

#65

god man these are cool.

dukethegold

Canada5645 Posts

April 05 2010 01:06 GMT

#66

Amazing pictures! Thank you for your hard work!

sung_moon

United States10110 Posts

April 05 2010 01:15 GMT

#67

sexy accent and great work

keep it up we all appreciate it

[Azn]Nada

United States275 Posts

April 05 2010 01:54 GMT

#68

haha absolutely amazing pictures

Always wanted to actually attend a Proleague Finals, but NeverGG's amazing high quality pics are gonna be as close as im gonna get for a couple of years.

Real enough for me!

Thanks!

seppolevne

Canada1681 Posts

April 05 2010 02:07 GMT

#69

Thanks NeverGG!

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

April 05 2010 02:16 GMT

#70

nice pics!

Musoeun

United States4324 Posts

April 05 2010 03:08 GMT

#71

Amazing pictures - thanks a ton as always!

yes9111

United States420 Posts

April 05 2010 03:28 GMT

#72

After reading your post gotta say there's a lot of work behind taking pictures that I never knew. My respect for you doubled

Thanks for the photos again!

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

April 05 2010 03:46 GMT

#73

On April 05 2010 12:28 yes9111 wrote:
After reading your post gotta say there's a lot of work behind taking pictures that I never knew. My respect for you doubled

Thanks for the photos again!

Thank you

For me the basic schedule (for a finals) is;

+ Wake up at 7am and prepare cameras - check they're fully charged and pack my bags.
+ Get myself ready physically (clothes etc.)
+ Take a taxi to the venue (at least 3-4 hours in advance) with laptop bag plus camera bags.
+ Set up all equipment in the and get my press pass.
+ Go outside to take a pre-event video.
+ Upload the video and while it's uploading to YT go and take pre-event photos.
+ Edit pre-event photos using PS7 and charge camera again. (Paranoid lol.)
+ Upload edited pre-event photos/video and make OP for event.
+ Alternate during the event between taking photos/editing and uploading whilst keeping an eye on the games for who is going to gg (needs winner's shots.)
+ Once the winner(s) are decided go out and take winner's photos/do photoshoot if it is a solo winner or there is a player of interest (aka. Flash last night.) All up on the stage.
+ Edit winners photos and post final OP to TL.
+ Go out for press dinner after packing up.
+ Taxi it home.
+ Edit any remaining photos and post.
+ Go to bed.

VManOfMana

United States764 Posts

April 05 2010 04:43 GMT

#74

Absolutely love this picture:

On April 03 2010 19:36 NeverGG wrote:

It pretty much says "final boss is here".

Edit: any chance to get a hi-res version? It would make an awesome wallpaper.

Also reminds me of this:

dangots0ul

United States919 Posts

April 05 2010 11:09 GMT

#75

never really look at these photos, was more into the games itself, but they were really good and i regret no looking at them for other events

+100!

SQneo

Canada89 Posts

April 05 2010 20:55 GMT

#76

great photos of winners league! thanks for the hard work NeverGG :D

De4ngus

United States6533 Posts

April 05 2010 23:58 GMT

#77

Thanks a ton, NeverGG. You're a hero :D

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

April 06 2010 01:07 GMT

#78

Sea got DENIED

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

April 06 2010 04:57 GMT

#79

On April 05 2010 20:09 dangots0ul wrote:
never really look at these photos, was more into the games itself, but they were really good and i regret no looking at them for other events

+100!

Well there's a sticky in BW with all my old stuff so you can check it there