Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS! General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog