Event Photography – L’OR Secret Podcast
Early start shooting event photography? How about early start shooting event photography with unlimited coffee and a fascinating chat from one of the UK’s best known DJ’s? I’m in!
L’OR put on one of their fantastic Secret Podcast Experiences at Spring Studios, London with DJ Fat Tony and invited me along to capture BTS of people socialising and photograph the podcast being recorded in front of a live audience.
Hilarity and sombre nature of Fat Tony’s chat aside, Spring Studios is a fantastic place to shoot an event in. Although dark in places it offers a really warm and interesting backdrop to your pictures and you can just float around shooting without really needing to set anything up at all.
The ability to get the most out of this shoot has to be laid firmly with the Canon R5, not only is it superb in low light, it also has a silent shooting mode. Something that is an absolute must have for any event photography. Gone are the days of having to put up with the clunking and beeping of photographers in the corner, grating on you like fingers down a chalk board. Instead with mirrorless camera’s we can now easily switch to silent shooting, retaining all the ability a professional camera has, just without the mirror bouncing up and down causing a racket every time you want to take a picture.
It makes me laugh now thinking back to when I first started shooting events professionally, one job sticks in my mind. I was flown out to Berlin to cover a large finance conference, attended by all of the companies top execs and industry experts (suits). I was shooting with a Canon 1DX, a truely excellent camera of it’s time but my goodness every time you took a picture with that thing it sounded like an assault rifle had been fired. There was no way you could use it subtly and that was just how photography was at the time. Fast forward to today, you can glide around silently without a single noise and I really believe that to come away from any event you need to blend in like a chameleon and become invisible, only by doing this will you capture the natural laughs, smiles and little gems which set good and great photographs apart.
