[Leica] photographing supreme court justices ....

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

You just want us to be impressed by your cool handling of the situation. 
Well, we won't fall for that trap.





... but you really did really well. Good job even if you didn't go all 
hyperbole.
p.s. is hermes the European shuttle :-) (space buff reference). Do they 
still own most of Leica after the latest financing plan...

At 09:15 AM 5/19/2006, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

>oh, it was an interesting assignment.
>
>photograph three supreme court justices with exisiting lighting (set up
>by a film crew) for packaging and pr materials. up at 5:00 a.m., down to
>D.C. by 9:00, get into the room, meet with the film crew and people from
>the Supreme Court's PR office. Find out that I won't have, as I'd
>thought, an hour to get photographs, but instead I'll have _thirty
>seconds_. Yes, 30 seconds. And not only that, it won't be 30 seconds for
>photos, it will be the thirty seconds already plotted out for the
>justices to get their microphones put on. So, about nine seconds per
>justice once they sat down.
>
>http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/sdo.jpg
><http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/sdo.jpg>
>
>http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/kennedy.jpg
><http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/kennedy.jpg>
>
>http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/sb.jpg
><http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/sb.jpg>
>
>then back to philadelphia. for this i'd packed two camera bodies, four
>lenses, a quantum, and and sb80dx.
>
>real photographers work too hard. bring on the goff models.
>
>seriously.
>
>kc
>
>P.s. breyer is wearing a hermes tie.
>

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