Highlight: Mr Paparazzi
July 9, 2007Technorati Tags: Mr Paparazzi, media, celebrities, paparazzi, camphone, camera, photo, video
MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR SNAPS
Celebrities often complain about their glamorous lifestyles being tracked by the mainstream media and the attention that they receive. The division between their personal and professional lives is often indistinguishable. Celebrities often don’t get on with the paparazzi that hound them as they attend premieres, clubs and even their own homes. Now, the development of technology allows regular fans to make literally thousands of pounds for getting a quality shot that can be used in the media.
Camera phones are constantly improving. I used to see little point in taking VGA quality images using a fixed focus lens. The cameras integrated into phones used to be for novelty alone, now upping the mega pixel count, using auto focus and proper XENON flashes, it means that almost anyone has a decent camera with them all of the time. Add optical zooms to camphones and regular people could be getting that prize shot every time.
The Sony Ericsson K800 launched last year with a 3.2 mega pixel camera, auto focus and the XENON flash, making it suitable as a decent camera integrated into a phone (or should that be the other way round?). It’s successor, the K810 retained the decent camera, whilst the forthcoming K850 ups the mega pixel count to 5 mega pixels. That might be the same as the already available LG KG920 and Nokia N95, but with a XENON flash it will excel both as a well specc’d camera. Seriously, add optical zoom and cam phones will almost certainly beat stand alone digital cameras. Digital camera pics are still better, so if you have a choice take the snap using the highest res on a digital camera.
Mr Paparazzi aims to make your pics famous. No, not that one of your mate hanging from a tree. They’d rather have that one of Paris Hilton or an ex Big Brother contestant, wearing last year’s fashion, eating a burger or escaping from prison. If used, your image could fetch as much as £10,000. So, what are you waiting for, stop recording set-ups for You Tube’s Been Framed and get down to that Big Brother eviction night now.
Remember though, your aim is to get your image seen. So you shouldn’t be in the image with your arm wrapped around them, you probably shouldn’t be in their home (laws against that apparently) and ultimately don’t hang around, get your pics sent to them right away before someone else does or the news is like soooo last week.
They take videos as well as photos too. Get over to Mr Paparazzi if you think you have what they’re looking for.
