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 gin clear and she isn't, like she is behind a fine mist. It's a massive FAIL

Not much you can do with a photo like this and it was a common problem. She did pose up afterwards in front of the obligatory Merc E350 in black, didn't even have to ask. Those photos are too good to come on here though!!!

Non copyright photo.........help yourself if you can fix it maybe AI can do something with it...haven't tried. Annoying is not the word!

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