In my workshops on Dance(rs) and Photograph(er)s I always encourage photographers to be courteous and to pay attention to [other] dancers and other photographers.
At various dance events, I've seen some "official" event photographers who were very courteous not to block/cross the path of others without need (or sit right across from you with his flash firing at you), and I've seen those who are totally oblivous (such as choosing a position with her flash right in my lens, shooting the entire stretch of competitions or performances (10-20+ minutes) and not moving an inch to a side (while she had a possibility to move around freely - because of her status, and I was locked in)). I understand that when you are on a (sort of) assignment, - you are more concentrated to have the job done, and I always try to avoid being in their way. But I found that the overall behavior of such "pro"s typically depends on the personality. I don't think I've ever had problems from those photographers who were freelancing/shooting for themselves, whether I was the "official" photographer or not. I find that these people tend to be more aware of others (including other photographers). Maybe I am just too critical... Igor On 7/5/2012 5:37 PM, Larry Colen (On Droid4est) wrote: > One of the things I've been working on is only taking photos at "the > decisive moment". One thing that I've noticed is that the better I > get at waiting for the decisive moment, the better everyone else seems > to get at stepping in front of my camera just before the decisive > moment. > > In a similar vein, yesterday a friend was trying to photograph me > dipping a dance partner at the end of a dance and a pro photographer > (press pass) stepped right between us to show his photo to someone. > -- 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.
