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I shot Peter Hain!
I had a new photography experience at the weekend that I would like to share with you all
I was on my way to visit Margam park to take some photos of wildlife, as it was a nice sunny day and on my way I passed Peter Hains house (at about 12:15 10 minutes from my house) and I saw that there were some people there from the press and also TV (BBC/ITN and a sky live broadcast team).
I decided to stop and to take a few photos, (with the 300mm I was planning to use on the wildlife) but I started to have a chat with one of the togs there who I think was working for the Daily mirror.
I found out a contact number of an agent from him who would try to sell any photos I took to some of the other newspapers the other tog there assumed that I was just working for another newspaper as I seemed to have the right gear (canon series 1 and L glass), so nobody questioned whether I should be there or not I doubt this would have worked if I had a 350d + kit lens. I quickly realised I was in with a good opportunity to get some good shots that I could sell to the national newspapers as the togs that were there at that time were doing exclusives for the papers they represented.
Peter Hains wife (I believe) was organising the media coverage and she invited us all into the grounds of the house and explained that Peter would come out at 1pm and not before as he was still drafting the speech he was going to read to us but she said he would not take any questions after the speech.
We all positioned ourselves, with the (very professional IMHO) sky anchor woman doing regular live updates for sky news. Meanwhile in addition to light changing and getting a lot darker more photographers were arriving
We were then told that the speech would not be till 2:30 so I popped home and got some more gear to ensure that I would not miss a shot, and returned with two camera bodies 2 flashes and two zooms together with lots of spare batteries. Well 2:30pm became 3pm and this then became 3:29pm, at which time he came out and made a short speech, by 3:32pm he had gone I had taken just over 80 shots of his speech in the bag I left went home and by 4:05pm I had selected/captioned and edited and emailed my first ever press photo for the national papers. Did they use any of the 9 photos I sent them in that adrenalin filled hour of speed editing/compressing/captioning? at the time of writing it seems that the Sunday papers did not use my shots but I guess some for the dailys could still use them on Monday well maybe nextime
It was a good experience though I felt a lot of pressure, and was probably typical of that type of press work 3 hours in the cold for 3 minutes of shooting
I had a new photography experience at the weekend that I would like to share with you all
I was on my way to visit Margam park to take some photos of wildlife, as it was a nice sunny day and on my way I passed Peter Hains house (at about 12:15 10 minutes from my house) and I saw that there were some people there from the press and also TV (BBC/ITN and a sky live broadcast team).
I decided to stop and to take a few photos, (with the 300mm I was planning to use on the wildlife) but I started to have a chat with one of the togs there who I think was working for the Daily mirror.
I found out a contact number of an agent from him who would try to sell any photos I took to some of the other newspapers the other tog there assumed that I was just working for another newspaper as I seemed to have the right gear (canon series 1 and L glass), so nobody questioned whether I should be there or not I doubt this would have worked if I had a 350d + kit lens. I quickly realised I was in with a good opportunity to get some good shots that I could sell to the national newspapers as the togs that were there at that time were doing exclusives for the papers they represented.
Peter Hains wife (I believe) was organising the media coverage and she invited us all into the grounds of the house and explained that Peter would come out at 1pm and not before as he was still drafting the speech he was going to read to us but she said he would not take any questions after the speech.
We all positioned ourselves, with the (very professional IMHO) sky anchor woman doing regular live updates for sky news. Meanwhile in addition to light changing and getting a lot darker more photographers were arriving
We were then told that the speech would not be till 2:30 so I popped home and got some more gear to ensure that I would not miss a shot, and returned with two camera bodies 2 flashes and two zooms together with lots of spare batteries. Well 2:30pm became 3pm and this then became 3:29pm, at which time he came out and made a short speech, by 3:32pm he had gone I had taken just over 80 shots of his speech in the bag I left went home and by 4:05pm I had selected/captioned and edited and emailed my first ever press photo for the national papers. Did they use any of the 9 photos I sent them in that adrenalin filled hour of speed editing/compressing/captioning? at the time of writing it seems that the Sunday papers did not use my shots but I guess some for the dailys could still use them on Monday well maybe nextime
It was a good experience though I felt a lot of pressure, and was probably typical of that type of press work 3 hours in the cold for 3 minutes of shooting
Well blagged 
I thought you said you shot him. 
