Only here for the beer - or staying vertical

Don't you hate it when you remember on Monday evening that you used the rain cover for the camera on Saturday, and it has been sitting in the bag ever since? Excuse the niff.

This blog enjoys adjourning to a local Good Beer Guide pub after an afternoon's snapping. On Saturday, I did not need to, as the home game against AFC Fylde coincided with the Prescot Cables Beer Festival. I got along early to start on the beers, from an excellent selection, with just the right balance across the strength range. Not that I had any concern about the pictures being at a jaunty angle, as that is easy to correct when cropping. It is a familiar task without a beer festival, I have a chronic inability to hold the camera in a completely horizontal position.

Take this example:

We can see in the background that I have been holding the camera at an angle, especially in the uprights of the windows. We can see it more clearly if we put a grid over the picture.

It is best to use part of a building for a guide: a perimeter fence may slope because of the slope of the pitch or the terrace behind it. The tops of these windows are of limited use as a guide too, because of the shape of the roller shutters.

I wanted to crop the picture just to show the players, with the ball in the top corner - we can also take the chance to rotate the selected area. In Photoshop Elements this can be done by clicking outside the crop tool and dragging it to the desired angle.

Here is the final result after adjusting the lighting.

The rest of the pictures from the game can be seen here.