Pro at work

Last night, we attended the wedding dinner of a long-time family friend of J's, at the Conrad. Expecting bad traffic due to the NDP rehearsal road closures, we drove to the hotel early, and spent some time strolling around Suntec before dinner.



The photographer for the day sported a short pale-blond ponytail, a pair of dark blue Oakleys perched atop his crown, and an outdoors sportsman's sunglass-protected sunburn. Dressed in a black polo tee and jeans, and fully decked out in a Lowepro S&F harness with an entire array of pouches around his waist, he went about his job quite efficiently, always preparing ahead - pulling up a chair in front of the stage to shoot the champagne pouring, getting the next table to start forming up for the group photo before going back to shoot the previous table.

Equipment-wise, he employed a Canon EOS 1D, a 5XX-series flash with omnibounce, and mostly swapped between a 16-35L and a mid-range L zoom which I couldn't identify. He'd use this interesting cross-hand grab - left hand wrapping around the front of the camera to grip his right hand, lens resting on his forearm - to support the camera for longer-zoom shots.

Interesting. I could learn from that.