Ashley Pomeroy
Well-known member
I've mentioned it before, but I booked a flight to Venice earlier in the year. By coincidence I picked the date of the Venice Film Festival, and so when I was there earlier in the week I popped along. I wanted to see how my 300mm f/4 IS paired with Canon's 1.4x Mk II teleconverter.
Alas I wasn't prepared to spend five hours a day standing in 31c temperatures while being jostled by people holding mobile phones over their heads so the only celebrity I got was Brad Pitt, departing by boat:
The only other celebrity I have seen departing in a boat is the late Hugh Scully of The Antiques Roadshow. I have now seen two celebrities departing in a boat.
I also saw these people, who might be famous in Italy, I have no idea who they are:
Both shot at 420mm f/5.6, e.g. wide open. By all accounts the 300mm f/4 IS is so-so and the 1.4x Mk II is a generation old but sized down to 1000 pixels they are all equal.
I'm a civilian and I have no insider knowledge or special access and it would have been a massive waste of time trying to top my beginner's luck, so I thought it would be interesting to turn the camera on some of the press photographers, who are presumably representative of the top echelon of modern celebrity press photojournalists.
My impression is that in the early 2000s there would have been a wall of white Canon lenses, and from the D3 onwards an equal number of black Nikon lenses, but now at least one of the photographers had a Sony, and third-party lenses were just as populare as first-party:
The USB cable was plugged into the chap's phone
The Airpods intrigued me - music, police scanner, or assistant feeding him information? Who knows. Also it was very, very hot and humid.
I shot this chap a few days later.
Also, leeedo. I kept calling it lie-do, but it's leeedo.
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http://women-and-dreams.blogspot.com/
Alas I wasn't prepared to spend five hours a day standing in 31c temperatures while being jostled by people holding mobile phones over their heads so the only celebrity I got was Brad Pitt, departing by boat:
The only other celebrity I have seen departing in a boat is the late Hugh Scully of The Antiques Roadshow. I have now seen two celebrities departing in a boat.
I also saw these people, who might be famous in Italy, I have no idea who they are:
Both shot at 420mm f/5.6, e.g. wide open. By all accounts the 300mm f/4 IS is so-so and the 1.4x Mk II is a generation old but sized down to 1000 pixels they are all equal.
I'm a civilian and I have no insider knowledge or special access and it would have been a massive waste of time trying to top my beginner's luck, so I thought it would be interesting to turn the camera on some of the press photographers, who are presumably representative of the top echelon of modern celebrity press photojournalists.
My impression is that in the early 2000s there would have been a wall of white Canon lenses, and from the D3 onwards an equal number of black Nikon lenses, but now at least one of the photographers had a Sony, and third-party lenses were just as populare as first-party:
The USB cable was plugged into the chap's phone
The Airpods intrigued me - music, police scanner, or assistant feeding him information? Who knows. Also it was very, very hot and humid.
I shot this chap a few days later.
Also, leeedo. I kept calling it lie-do, but it's leeedo.
--
http://women-and-dreams.blogspot.com/
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