articles/Football/world-cup-page6
Published 01/10/2014
The shortest focal length in the selection of action pictures provided. Belgium and Tottenham's Jan Vertonghen. Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM 1/1,000 f2.8. 320 ISO at 100mm
The football tight against the edge of the frame looks great in a competition print but not when it is in the bleed area of a page design!
The press corps all tied up with rope before panicky-looking officials!
This, to some extent, reveals the difference between producing for newsprint and magazine - the newspaper rarely pushes an image in the bleed area (they also, in many cases, use images of dubious quality; I often ponder why they did not source something a little shaper before pushing it over the whole broadsheet).
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