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Kelly Brook arrives at BBC Radio 2 Central London: Behind the Scenes with a London Celebrity Photographer

Some video footage of Kelly Brook arriving at BBC Radio 2 in Central London. What can I say? She is certainly in show stopping mode and bringing the whole street to a stand still. This was filmed from the Official Photographers Pen, Fan Pen opposite, 2 Security Guards to my left, a couple of Paparazzi with big rigs just outside. Kelly arrives in the obligatory Merc S350 or E220? not sure, she's out of the car, signs, poses up and is gone in 20 seconds flat. This is the normal situation, things move very fast and these stars don't hang around..... we are not talking studio or landscape photography here. If I was here not filming but instead using THE RIG as in shooting stills I would have got this shot here where she just looks for a nano second. She's done this many times before, has clocked everybody including myself even though it doesn't look like it and then she's gone. Blink and you miss it! Then it's off to another photo shoot somewhere else and it's r...

Lisa Snowdon leaving ITV Studios (Focus Error): Behind the Scenes with a London Celebrity Photographer

  Lisa Snowdon pictured leaving the ITV Studios one of the hardest places to get a decent shot of any celebrities. You are shooting through a 3m high fence with metal railings with a gap just big enough to get a lens through. You've got bin bags, cleaners, security, tv crew, delivery drivers and vans....the list goes on. Not only that once you manage to get the lens through the gap the flash is firing into the railings so you have to take that off and push it through another gap or just forget the flash all together. Probably why she is laughing? Only 2 spots you can get a full length shot and this is the main one and it isn't great even if there is no coffee cup on the floor. So what's gone wrong here then??? We have eye contact, she's laughing, we've got her full length, it's all happening but there is just one problem. She's slightly out of focus at the dreaded 200% which all media will do, the camera has back focused on the TV crew guy behind, he's g...