Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] funerals ! :-( > > > > > Johnny Deadman wrote: > > > > >>>>funerals are fine things to photograph... sometimes. > > And Ted Grant responded that as news assignments, funerals can be > horrors... > > I want to agree with both, and suggest that the difference is whether > you are a.) welcome at said funeral, and b.) intrusive... > > In deference to Ted, it is virtually impossible NOT to be intrusive at > many funerals covered as news assignments. After all, those holding the > funeral would rather you weren't there, so by definition you are > intrusive, even if you are being your least intrusive.<<<<<<<< BD, This is so true even working long glass with 400 or 600 . You try not to be there, but no matter what, "you are there!" And depending on the circumstances of the death and the grieving family, you are nearly always spotted and run off. Unfortunately I had a couple of sad and scary experiences many years ago and I swore never to shoot another funeral that wasn't some big State thing where they become a media event. However, your point and Johnny's are well taken and I can understand being there as a photojournalist at the request of the family. Yes I would do that, the same as being asked to shoot the birth of a child. ted