Thanks, Chris! I've been comparing my shots with the shots with the galleries on the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times newspaper web sites and have made some observations.
1) The Tribune photographers have done a far superior job over the Sun-Times photographers. The Tribune photos have strong emotion from beginning to end, excellent up close composition, dramatic moments, and a great variety of shooting angles. 2) The Sun-Times photos appear to me to be much more amateurish and lack the powerful emotion necessary for great photojournalism. And, of course, my shots are even more amateurish. 3) Not marching kept me from getting compelling shots. The rally at the bandshell was a kind of poser moment for everyone, with folks staging to head out to the real show--or put another way, heading out to *become* the show. 4) It's been interesting to compare shots of the same subject. For example, the "don't trade on me" shot I took has saturated blacks--and the rendering is a little odd to my eye, and at first I thought my camera was doing something funky, but when I saw the newspaper photos of "don't trade on me", the rendering in those shots was very similar--saturated blacks etc--so it wasn't just me or my camera. 5) It's also been interesting to see similar people show up in the newspaper shots. I ran into a student I had a year ago at the peace rally, so I took a photo, and she was also in one of the Tribune shots. And the Tribune also has a shot of the "Grateful Great Grandma" taking a rest during the march. I photographed the ole gal at the Nurses Rally on Friday. 6) Photographically this has been a fantastic experience for me--comparing the professional shots with my own--on the same subject-- has really revealed the shortcomings in my work--which is the lack of strong emotion. Still, it was a great day of shooting, practicing my skills, being part of history, and despite the shortcomings in my photos, I still have a very nice remembrance of the day. Today I'm going to make some small prints for the scrap book, as it were. Cheers, Christine On May 22, 2012, at 12:40 AM, Chris Mitchell wrote: > Super stuff Christine. As with others, "Don't Trade on me" is a really > good shot. > > Chris > > On 21 May 2012 02:19, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Everyone: >> >> Darrel & I headed down to the Petrillo Band Shell to listen to speakers, and >> I have to say, that part was kind of lame. The nurses' rally was so much >> more interesting and fun. But today the people watching was great, and >> everyone was really, really nice. >> >> The gallery shows Jesse Jackson Sr. giving an interview, a few Canadian >> protestors, and a lot of funny signage. >> >> Skirmishes with the police have been reported. The Chicago Tribune has a >> very compelling gallery of photos if you're interested. >> >> Darrel and I witnessed no violence, but the truth is we showed up for family >> hour, as it were. >> >> Anyway, I'm glad we went to see this historic event. To be sure, I mainly >> went as spectator and photographer. >> >> http://www.caguila.com/natoshort >> >> Cheers, Christine/Chicago >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
