Tell a story

Focusing on a story can be useful, even if you normally are not much interested in this kind of fotography.
To me, a perfect occasion come when movie stars Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes came near my house in Bracciano to have their wedding in the beautiful Odescalchi Castle.
As usual, to reach your goal you have to focus on some hot point before you start.

- Have a strategy
I know Bracciano, so I know that Tom, Katie and all their friends could reach the castle without be seen by their fan and photographer.
So I decided to show not the stars (obviously impossible) but the madness of a little town full of fans, anchormen and photographers for a day.

- Choose carefully your equipment
With this plan in my mind a selected a very lightweight equipment composed by just my Finepix S5600.
Normally having no backup batteries or memory card can be a problem, but in this case my house is near the castle so I decide to download the memory card and recharge the batteries at lunchtime.

- Have a tactic
I remember the Joel Spolski suggestion “Fire and Motion” (if you are into computer industry you have to read his www.joelonsoftware.com).
Instead of trying to get a place in the first row in front of the castle, which was full of professional photographer, I take a walk looking for more intersting place like:
- shops with Tom and Katie picture (I found even a metal detector shop and a butcher shop…)
- the Castle Plaza, full of fans and photographer
- the palace in front of the Castle with a photographer at each window (they paid 100 euros…)
- the municipal building, full of van with trasmitting antennas
For the rest of the day I just walked from a point to the next one, shoting at everything actracted my attention and having fun.

In the gallery you can see some of the 500 picture I have.

P.S.
Congratulations, Tom