England 35-26 Barbarians

England lift the Mastercard trophy as Danny Care sprays the champagne

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Paul Sackey did his best to make his point at being left out of the England side by running in two tries for the Barbarians whilst wearing odd socks in a curious game at Twickenham. England were 25-7 up at half time, but with a couple of minutes to go the Barbarians were back to 32-26 and England were looking a bit edgy. A decision to kick a penalty with a minute to go to secure the win didn’t go down very well with the crowd who were eager to see more fluent running rugby.

England now head off to the Southern Hemisphere for a series of games against Australia and New Zealand, and will certainly be bouyed by this result.

Martin Johnson is silhouetted in a sunny Twickenham stadium

Photographically, Twickenham was a bit of a challenge again. Split by sunshine and shadow, I used the technique described here to try and keep a handle on everything. Generally it works very well and the 1D range tends to meter accurately. Occasionally though, I do like to have a playabout as you can see from the shot of Martin Johnson above which was metered on the background in manual mode – all I had to do was wait for him to turn in profile.

The Barbarians line up for a photocall

I also like to pop my camera on the monopod with a wide angle lens and a remote cable shutter release, poke the whole rig up in the air, and get a different sort of shot to the “generic”. The shot above is an example – the camera is about 10 feet above the ground. Focus is a bit of a lottery, but stick it on f/10 and it’ll generally be OK.

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