Paparazzi photos of celebrities are always popular but you don’t get an idea of what was involved for the photogs to get the shot and what a celebrity has to go through for that shot to be taken and quite often on a daily basis especially in a place like LA. Things have changed in recent years with those shots from 1 mile down the road with a massive long lens getting rarer and shots from literally feet away being the in vogue thing in pap circles. This article is a tongue in cheek look at the celebrity world of paparazzi photography.

Two paparazzi videos showing two different approaches to the local paps by the celebrities concerned. Firstly a video of Ashley Tisdale leaving the famous Byron and Tracey salon in LA which was taken on 15 December and of course the paparazzi are waiting outside to get some shots in this case Hollywood.TV. As soon as she leaves the building she’s dazzled by flash lights so much so, she can’t see where the hell she is going so has to hold her arm up to block the light to get to her vehicle. It’s not over yet  as after she has found her vehicle and got in, she has to reverse with multiple flash lights firing at her from the front of her SUV and she can’t see a whole lot so resorts to putting the sun visor down, which doesn;t seem to be working that well either and which is dangerous to say the least.

This is the first approach to paparazzi which is: Carry on as normal, ignore and don’t answer any questions,  let them get their shots, act all celebrity like and mysterious and hopefully they will go away. The Ashley Tisdale Approach. Video

The second approach to dealing with the paparazzi is the