{"id":437022,"date":"2026-02-21T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437022\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:45:09","slug":"andrew-photo-will-go-down-in-history-birmingham-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437022\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew photo will go down in history &#8211; Birmingham photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams, 27, from Aston, has taken photos of celebrities and musicians across his career, including at Wireless and the Reading and Leeds festivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the pressure to capture the &#8220;perfect&#8221; shot or to photograph a specific moment meant those behind the camera needed to be on their guard constantly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s patience, it&#8217;s composition, it&#8217;s lighting &#8211; that photographer looked like he was using a flashlight, it&#8217;s going to look very harsh, which is not going to look great for [Andrew], it&#8217;s going to emphasise his imperfections,&#8221; Williams explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot that goes into it; I think people think it&#8217;s just a photo, it&#8217;s not &#8211; it&#8217;s years of practice, expertise &#8211; and also a bit of luck too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Trying to shoot at night is one of the hardest things you can do as a photographer\u2026 the fact that [Andrew] was in a car would&#8217;ve meant he would&#8217;ve had to change his camera settings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Noble told the BBC that although the picture was not the best he had ever taken, it was up there with the most important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we think about what&#8217;s happening right now\u2026 people are always going to go back to that and be like: &#8216;This captures a very specific moment&#8217;,&#8221; added Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams, 27, from Aston, has taken photos of celebrities and musicians across his career, including at Wireless and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-437022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}