| Theme: Glamour How to shoot and what to bring along when you have the opportunity to shoot glamour events close up? As in being part of the media and photographers invited to join in the photo-calls for events like celebrity get-togethers, meet-the-fans sessions or beauty pageant finalists' previews. Don't worry unnecessarily as to what type of lenses of ISO film speed to use. Anything from 20mm to 300mm or zoom lenses having these focal lengths will do nicely. As for films, ISO 100 for most beauty pageants' Press previews and ISO 400 for most other indoor events.
In the four images above, the first one was shot at 28mm for an exaggerated look and the second at 200mm for a compressed appearance. The difference here was that the beauties in the foreground were larger than those further back while the telephoto look have them all in similar sizes. Also, always look for something new and don't just concentrate on shooting the same event like everyone else is doing. The group photo of the beauty finalists is one example, where practicality every photographer have shot it in this way, too. Well, I got closer from another viewpoint and got this close-up portrait angle. Theme: Panning (flowing background)
Freezing action photos or capturing them showing motions and panning mode have something to do with the fundamental concerning shutter speeds. Motorsports are such an event where both styles of capturing the subject matters can be accomplished in the same manner - shoot a few showing motion or panning and concentrate on freezing the movements in subsequent frames or rolls of film. Theme: Stop action (wheels hardly spinning)
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