Shooting a German Footballer

Here at Staffordshire University, one of the many courses that we run is a Sports Journalism course aimed at professional and ex-professional sportspeople, and on the course this year is footballer Felix Bastians. Currently with SC Freiburg, Felix has played in Britain for clubs such as Nottingham Forest, Chesterfield and Gillingham and is no stranger to the British game.

Last week, Felix was looking for a photographer to do an impromptu shoot with him in the Media Centre, shooting some portraits of him using the equipment that he's being trained on as a part of the course. Felix had been contacted by Bundesliga Magazine in Germany, they were looking to do a feature and needed some shots, and my colleague Stuart Hadley put Felix in touch with me.



The shoot with Felix was done somewhat on the fly, we only had about fifteen minutes to get it done, so we went through the Newsroom looking for some photo opportunities that would suit the brief. We did a couple of shots at a workstation, a couple in the radio studio, and some with the studio cameras, trying not to go for anything too cliched but in the end having to resort to tried and tested poses!




Whether any of the shots make it into Bundesliga Magazine remains to be seen, but website GiveMeFootball.com has published an article on Felix and used one of my shots so far!




The article can be seen online at GiveMeFootball.com here.

The full set of photos can be seen on Flickr here.

Thanks for looking!