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Hello, seen a few events today, the atheltics in manchester and cannes film festival and was looking at the press photographers, and they all seem to have really long lenses, so zoom lenses but they are stood close to the subject.

Do i presume these like 30- 300mm lens to cover everything for them?

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Haven't seen the news today but would imagine a pro tog covering those sorts of events would be loaded with two bodys, one wide, one zoom although am sure one of the pro's will clarify...
 
quite a lot of red carpet dudes like the 28-300 because the carpets are well lit with continuous lighting so f5.6 isn't a huge issue, and it's cramped so swopping bodies would be a pain and not fast enough.
 
If they're white Canon 70-200 f/2.8IS, if they're black Nikkor 70-200VR.
 
The reason they have the big zoom lenses whilst being close at the same time is so they can get close-up headshots.
 
70-200 almost certainly. Perfect for portaits of non-posed news subjects. Head and shoulders type shots up close or maybe full length a little further back.

The 70-200 looks big, but not really!
 
When I worked for Marathon Photos, the requirement was at least a 20D with a 70-200 lens, preferably an f2.8.

You were asked to get all the runner in the shot with space above their head and space below their feet.

Pretty sure that most companies that provide this service will be the same.

Pay rates vary but are from around £80 upwards depending on the event. You're hired to shoot onto their cards, they process/sell and you get paid a fix fee - in the majority of adverts I've seen for these types of photographer! Quite easy money for the work but the Great North Run is hard work, only done that once!!!!

Carl.
 
Haha human Gatso for 80 quid a day.

Nice way to crush the creativity out of you :D
 
If they're pros, they wouldn't be using a lens with such wide range of focal length. Lenses like this are generally pretty cheap and crappy and not up to professional standards.

Like Ryan says, probably 2 bodies. One with something like a 27-40 f/2.8 and another with a 70-200 f/2.8.
 
CarlOgden said:
When I worked for Marathon Photos, the requirement was at least a 20D with a 70-200 lens, preferably an f2.8.

You were asked to get all the runner in the shot with space above their head and space below their feet.

Pretty sure that most companies that provide this service will be the same.

Pay rates vary but are from around £80 upwards depending on the event. You're hired to shoot onto their cards, they process/sell and you get paid a fix fee - in the majority of adverts I've seen for these types of photographer! Quite easy money for the work but the Great North Run is hard work, only done that once!!!!

Carl.
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Pretty much the same when I talked to an event organiser who was interested in getting me to work for him. Get a shot of every player even if just standing plus a good team shot and try and get a few action shots.
 
desantnik said:
Haha human Gatso for 80 quid a day.

Nice way to crush the creativity out of you :D
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Hahaha...There is no creativity! The photos are in a Medium size JPEG as they are printed out very small so large JPEGs not needed!

Carl.
 
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