Matt, Even with all these advanced technologies, referees still managed to make wrong decisions in the penalty area and didn’t detect accidental fouls and didn’t picked up diving etc

I enjoyed this article about World Cup photography, because it not only mentions gear, but also gear placement choices, and the human side like what’s fun to shoot, and also shot selection, how the photographer chooses to find a shot when multiple important things are happening at the same time. And the fact that they hard-wire all their remote cameras because there’s too much interference to rely on wireless.

https://www.dpreview.com/interviews...orld-cup-coverage-10-hour-days-and-wild-fans/

John, all good comments.. and I agree with all.

Lens Rental used to have a brilliant blog articles.. not sure if they stopped or why they slipped from my radar. I came across this because it was current / newsy.

Hopefully that turgid final puts the US off wanting to host any more.

I thought the ref cam worked well, and it was funny that in one game the Norwegians claimed that the ball had hit the spidercam cable.

Looking at pictures of the action, it was notable how few photographers seemed to be given in-person pitch side access during the games. Instead there was a reliance on remote control cameras around the goals and wide angles, but pictures of the action were generally taken looking down from the tribunes, so from way up in the sky.

This struck me as quite an interesting way to present large numbers of pictures.

Same as the Grid view in LrC

Matt, Even with all these advanced technologies, referees still managed to make wrong decisions in the penalty area and didn’t detect accidental fouls and didn’t picked up diving etc

I agree.. .. but it is getting better and faster... but not perfect. World Cup events really allow investment into areas normally outside normal budgets.

I did not enjoy this tournament.. but was glad to see some of the best players in the world, eg Messi, Mbappe, Haaland, Kane, etc.. and was a privilege / lucky to see so many of these guys in the same competition and enjoy them perform on the top stage.

I developed a technique of a) been selective of what matches I 'watched' and b) ' watched' means having the match on tv, low volume while I do something else and then wake up for the exciting bits or last 10 mins, etc..

The Associated Press web site has a feature of the best photos taken at the WC, some of them are from remote camera postions!