Do you know the photo you need before you take it?
You don't know the photo you need, you know roughly, say working for the Sunday Times, I'll be driving to the match on a Saturday morning and they'll phone me and say right this is the shape, this is the size, this is what it's got to fit in the paper. So you know the size, so you know you have to do either upright, or landscape or whatever you're going to do. The photo is purely random. You don't know, first of all, who's going to bat or bowl or what's going to happen in the game at all. So, no you don't. When you've taken it, you've got a good idea. As soon as you've taken the picture you think that's probably going to be the one they're going to use tomorrow. So you've got an idea afterwards because that helps you edit. You could take hundreds of pictures. You know which one to go to, you know which ones you don't bother with. So you sort of, you can hone it down to those pictures that you've taken which, yes, you've got a fair idea that may be the ones they use as long as they're the right shape ,right size. Also now, there's a trend with photographers now to do reaction rather than action. So, don't worry about the wicket, somebody getting bowled or whatever it is. Just worry about a bowler running along punching the air. It gets a bit boring but that's maybe what people want in papers or magazines or something. That's what tends to be the trend now, where people just go for players reacting to something. I'd rather do the action myself.
