Thursday, September 20, 2007

How to be an event photographer or photojournalist.
























I don't have any solid work for myself in the area but I hope to someday. I recently finished taking pictures at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and it was one of my most exciting outings as a photographer. I had the chance to meet many other photographers or dare I say, Paparazzi hanging outside of hotels hoping to catch a star on film. One photographer I meet said that it was his most exciting week all year. Anyway, it was a very successful week for me and I was able to photograph a lot of the top stars.

Now that it is over, I am a little bit down. I have looked on the Internet for events going around Toronto, but it is quite dry. I look on http://toronto.craigslist.org/ quite a bit and there is some stuff, but it takes a lot of time to look in the various categories. I have also been looking at this website called http://www.torontoevents.com/ a lot and I have seen some potential there.
So in the end, I have discovered there is no one way to go about finding events to photograph, but look on the net, find an event and head out with your camera in hand and you never know what chance you might stumble upon.
Cheers and keep shooting.

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