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Shot for Wire Image tonight, red carpet stuff at the Ivy Hotel in San Diego, which was celebrating its one year anniversary. Afterwards they made sure I drank a little Dom Perignon. This group here enjoyed a glass (or two or three) of the good stuff also. My love and taste in photography comes with shooting athletes and people in a controlled environment, one on one stuff. But this stuff pays the bills also, so I’ll do it…

For red carpet stuff, most of the guys use a flash bracket, so you can put the lens on the same axis as the lens, and it really minimizes those ugly drop shadows behind the subjects. Bracket looks something like this.

As soon as Kiefer Sutherland rolled in the women went berzerko. It’s sometimes interesting for me to watch people watch stars. They get giddy. Lose all sense of time and place. Stare. I should have shot these people…