Shooting Jürgen Prochnow
I am still very much in the "getting experience" mode, and while my current employer still has not got too much work for me, I can (unfortunately) not just leave the office all day long to shoot photos.
But I can do that in the evenings, and yesterday I was visiting a public reading with German actor Jürgen Prochnow, probably best known for his performance in the movie Das Boot (1981). He has been famous in Germany for a long time, and so a number of guests came to see and hear, greet and meet him.
The reason for the reading was the German release of the DVD The Da Vinci Code where Prochnow plays Andre Vernet, a Swiss banker who gets involved in the opening of a certain safe. So Prochnow was reading from Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code the relevant chapters of his scene, and I was there shooting photos before he actually started to read.
There were some of the press colleagues present, and we had been asked to not do any photos while the actual reading was going on, but I silently sneaked to the back, removed the flashlight and did a few shots with the telephoto lens. Nobody actually noticed me.
While the other shots were okay, I think these shots -without flashlight- were actually much better, because they captured the mood of the scene perfectly. The only thing I do not like about this shot are the green bottles, but still I like the shot.
What do you think?
P.S.: Here is the technical data - Canon EOS 1d mark II N with Canon EF 70-200 mm/1:2.8 L, at 200 mm, Tv 1/160 sec, F 2.8 +2/3, ISO 1600
