Good thing I look at local news.  Just yesterday I saw that Lena Dunham and crew were going to be in my town (New Paltz!) filming an episode of the HBO show Girls (Disclaimer: I really love this show, and was a bit starstruck in seeing Lena Dunham).  I took a walk over to the SUNY New Paltz campus where they were filming today to see what was happening and to try to grab a few pictures.  From the information I gleaned, and what I remember from the end of last season, the episode that was being filmed was actually taking place at The University of Iowa, where Lena’s character, Hannah, just got into the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.  Even some of the signs and buildings on campus were rebranded with Iowa, as well as the clothing of the student extras.

Seeing a production like this shoot what looked like about 2 minutes of footage over the course of a couple of hours was really interesting;  The amount of people involved, the sheer size of the equipment and the number of takes just to get what seems like a fairly basic scene correct.  Also interesting — feeling like I was a photog for TMZ for an afternoon 🙂

All shots were taken with my favorite camera these days, the Olympus OM-D E-M5, and most of them from today had the E-M5 paired with probably one of the most underrated lenses in the system, the Olympus 40-150.  This is a cheap cheap cheap consumer level lens that can deliver excellent results in good light.  In the past couple of weeks I’ve been consistently amazed by it.