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Paparazzi Work Schedule Part 3 2008-11-09 17:58:51 Switching schedules
Please read parts one and two of this series before reading further.
This is a tough one and it gets tougher depending on how long you’ve been in either of the time frames you’re in that you want to switch out of. Not only is it a major adjustment to your sleep patterns but its [...]
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Paparazzi Work Schedule Part 2 2008-11-08 23:54:01 This is part two of a series describing options of the work schedule of a paparazzi. If you haven’t read part one yet please do so here first before reading this blog.
Afternoon to late night
This is the work schedule that I am currently in. It is a bit different and it can get a bit [...]
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Paparazzi Work Schedule Part 1 2008-11-08 04:51:39 This blog will talk about the best times to be out to hunt for celebrities, there is quite a bit to cover so I will be doing it in a mini-series of sorts divided into several parts
First it all depends on if you want to be morning to afternoon or afternoon to late night. Both [...]
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Celebrity Photography Archives 2008-11-06 05:21:42 This is a post about the importance of your photo archive you’ve taken of celebrities during your time as a paparazzi. It is extremely important that you back all of your photo’s up on an external hard drive. I have mine copied twice on two hard drives. There are some photographers who have been around [...]
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, Celebrity
Keanu Reeves found not guilty in trial against pap 2008-11-04 02:08:50 Paparazzo Alison Silva claimed that Keanu
had hit him with his car after leaving a friends house. The paparazzo claimed that he had been unable to work since the accident and wanted the court to award him $711,974 dollars for his medical bills and compensation. The problem was the pap kept changing his story and [...]
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Digital Photography and Celebrities 2008-11-03 03:11:42 This post will tell you how to take high quality pictures of celebrities even if you have no digital photography experience like I did when I first started.
Being a day pap or night pap.
Most DSLR’s are perfectly suited for the job of being a paparazzi. You don’t need one that has a high maximum ISO [...]
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, Digital
What I love about the job. 2008-11-02 16:47:57 If you love your job then its not a job.
I’ve never had a job before that I loved doing and looked forward to doing it. My last job was in retail and to say the least I hated it with the fury of a thousand suns. It was the same thing everyday, I could look [...]
The job itself. 2008-11-02 03:41:00 First of all, I have to warn you this is not a job for everyone. Yes just about anyone can do it but I highly doubt everyone would want to. The great thing is anyone with a simple video camera or point and shoot camera can give it a try.
There are plenty of US cities [...]
Exchanging tips with other paps 2008-11-02 02:54:19 This is an article describing the unwritten rules of exchanging tips with other paps.
This is a job where most of the is time spent on it is waiting and looking at faces to spot celebrities, Most of that is done with a bunch of other paparazzi grouped up at a hot spot. So there is [...]
Freelance or Salary Income Part 3 2008-11-01 17:41:19 This is part three in a three part series elaborating on the money you can earn as a paparazzi.
You’re in a great place to earn salary and get money for pictures on the side. Depending on how many agencies you are already using plus the usual standard salary of $2,000-$3,500 you can Easily make $5,000 [...]
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Photography Equipment Other Paparazzi Use 2008-11-28 05:23:17 This post will be about the equipment other paparazzi use. You can read about the Cameras and Equipment
I use here.
This is the flash that I personally use and the majority of other paparazzi use as well. It works perfectly with the Canon 40D digital camera as well as the 10D through 30D. It allows [...]
Spotting Celebrities On Holidays 2008-11-27 04:40:22 With it being Thanksgiving and having Hanukkah and Christmas soon behind it some of you might wonder how the holidays effect the paparazzi industry. I wish I could say its our greatest time of year but its actually the slowest. From December to late January its pretty much our dry season. Celebrities
either go out [...]
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, Spotting
Best Days To Spot Celebrities 2008-11-26 20:39:55 This post is also related to the work schedule of paparazzi post which can be viewed here
This is going to be a tough topic to explain. The truth is anything can happen at anytime anywhere on any day of the week. Its just that some days have a lesser chance of celebrity population density being [...]
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What Makes Celebrity Photos or Video Worth Money? 2008-11-23 23:04:29 Many many new paparazzi come into this job thinking all they have to do is take a quick picture of any semi-known celebrity and they’ll make a quick thousand dollars
Anyone can take pictures of celebrities walking down the street or smoking or having dinner. These generic pictures usually don’t sell for a whole lot, Maybe [...]
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, Money
, Worth
The Benefits Being A Freelance Paparazzi 2008-11-23 06:28:26 Picture yourself relaxing in your parked car with your camera on your lap. You are listening to an Ipod or reading a book only looking up when you see movement out of the corner of your eye and checking the face of the person each time. After a little while you spot a celebrity walking [...]
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Other Paparazzi And You 2008-11-23 03:12:52 The paparazzi industry is an extremely competitive one. You can make plenty of friends in it but it would be much wiser to consider them to be ‘frienemies’ because of how secretive everyone is and how aggressive things can get when it hits the fan. You could be having a nice conversation with another paparazzi [...]
How to spot celebrities 2008-11-21 05:29:04 Aside from your photographer skills or your talent for charisma when taking video of celebrities and how good you are at making and maintaining contacts. Your abilities of recognizing faces will directly effect how much money you can make. If you don’t keep up to date by watching the latest tv shows then the star [...]
How To Make Great Money From Video Of Celebrities 2008-11-16 17:30:27 A lot of people trying to make a living by taking video of celebrities don’t really do a good job of it. They’ll just point it at them and walk backwards in front of the celebrity and that’ll be it. Even TMZ and Hollywoodtv don’t always do a great job of it because every day [...]
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, Great
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Making Money From Red Carpet Events 2008-11-16 17:11:51 Every so often during any given week you’ll most likely come across at least one red carpet event. Sometimes press photographers will be to few and they’ll actually ask you to join. I highly recommend that if you do that you get a spot on the side of the line where the celebrities will enter [...]
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The differences between good and bad paparazzi 2008-11-14 16:29:51 I’m sure that there’s scores of people out there that firmly believe that the only good paparazzi is a dead paparazzi, Though there are quite a number of them that I wish would get deported back to South America there is still plenty of us that are very good people.
The good
The group I’m in, we [...]
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