Before I begin talking about the work I did for Exposure Wrestling. I need to establish how this came about.
It was Sunday 31st I was sending out and reading emails, during this time I was going through Eventbite and found an event by Exposure Wrestling.This gave me the idea to email the company so I went to the website and email them about potentially getting photos during the Newport visit.
To my surprise I got a reply back and they actually allowed me to come down to take photos on the 7th of August. In the reply he said for me to come down at around 5:30 so this way I can examine the area and get used to having to move out quickly from some people’s view.
The first match came and one of my surprises was that the lighting was stationery during this whole event, unlike WWE and AEW the ring is very evenly lit. This was not the case for this event.
Not only this but the crowd was a little bit of the obstacle I had to overcome, this was due to the fact that wrestling oftentimes has the fans interact with the wrestlers so being in the right position at the right time with very crucial, now I will make that in certain instances I wasn't in the right area which is my fault but I have come out with amazing images being at the ringside using my 35mm F 1.4 sigma really made me consider the image of which I had to take and the frame of which I had to use images.
I really did not expect to sweat as much as I did, I am running around the ring. Crouching down and running like I was Solid Snake from Metal Gear. Luckily, I have some knowledge of wrestling so when certain moves were being setup, I quickly got into the the position to grab the image.
It has to be said that these images turned out amazing. I took these in jpeg by accident by when editing that helped me to get this kinda 80s style with the images which I am very proud of.
