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Subject: [Leica] photographing supreme court justices ....
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri May 19 22:36:21 2006
References: <86070F417851ED468663EC5459FC8A05137C@EXCHANGE.asc.local>

The politicians are much more fun and photogenic ;-) For people new to 
the list, have a look at Kyle's recollection of the Republican National 
Convention in August 2000:
http://leica-users.org/leica-users/v17/msg13186.html

Nathan

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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