With my friends of Eventmedia.it, an agency in Rome that is specialized in organizing many training format, I was able to participate, either as a member of staff and as photographer, to several days of training and events for their clients in very prestigious and beautiful locations in Italy and abroad. The possible scenarios for a photographer during these events are always a “challenge” and one must have a solid background to bring home a good final work. Technically, you must be able to handle totally different situations and settings. They range from the classic classroom or stage, often with very low lighting, where the use of flash is not always the best solutions. Fortunately, some years making photographs in theaters left a good “how to” skills even though it is undeniable the need for a good camera equipment that allows you to use pretty high ISO settings and apertures of at least 2.8.

Opposite situation happens during sporting events, where it is essential to catch the most difficult moments of the various tests and performance, with fast times and discrete depth of field. Often I need to work with two camera bodies since the time available for lenses changing does not exist and also to have an immediate backup in the unlikely event of a technical problem on one a camera. Trying to give a “reportage mood” to the shooting makes the work particularly dynamic and attractive, conveying to the viewer the mood of enthusiasm and vitality that characterized the event. Oblique planes, close ups, extreme use of wide angle lenses, panning, zooming out, intentional blur, are often used in order to give “movement” to the images. A well-balanced use of post production is always important to provide the customer with a good final set of technically perfect and professional looking pics.