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The Assembled Media

Postby leek on Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:48 pm

Here's a shot that I took at the same Chinese demonstration as my first competition entry... The shot was taken back in June, but I didn't want to publish it until now...

While all the assembled media were listening to and recording the main speaker, I sneaked in behind him and poked my lens thru a hole in the banner behind him...

As you will see - if you zoom in, some of the assembled throng gave me some dirty looks, but I think they were just jealous that they didn't think of it...

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Postby rokkstar on Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:52 pm

I like that a lot.
I love the aspect ration of it and the statesmen right in the centre.
Nice view that we seldom get.
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Postby gstark on Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:57 pm

Wot Matt said.

The panorama cropping just helps this so much; great capture.
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Postby Mal on Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:02 pm

Great Shot, wonderful position. BTW not sure why an audio guy is giving you an eyeful! Not really going to stuff up the audio by shooting behind a banner!!!
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Postby Sheetshooter on Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:08 pm

Typical sound recordist at far left concerned about;

    NO STILLS ON A SOUND TAKE


Mind you, in all the work I did with TV and Motion Picture I never once saw a sound recordist who did not have a Nikon or a Pentaks underneath his Nagra.

Good shot but could possibly do with some more dynamic element closer to the camera. I was told by an old hand once when I was a kid covering a shopping centre inferno to get to the top of a staircase that was smoky but not aflame. I said they would toss me out and he replied that that was the shot to get as the firemen ran up the stairs - view from the top rather than below.

I earned the scorn of many but I got a great shot that opened the evening bulletin that night.

Good on you for having the balls to get this one.
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Postby leek on Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:09 pm

Mal wrote:Great Shot, wonderful position. BTW not sure why an audio guy is giving you an eyeful! Not really going to stuff up the audio by shooting behind a banner!!!

Maybe he has two wives or something and was worried about it being published??? :lol:
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Postby Raydar on Mon Aug 01, 2005 3:45 pm

Some dirty looks indeed mate.
Some of those faces are quite angry.

If looks could kill!!!!!!

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