[Leica] photographing supreme court justices ....

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

looks like for at least two of the three, thirty seconds was too  
long....Steve


On May 19, 2006, at 9:15 AM, 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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