... same time, different day
Today is one of those days. This blog and post may take me two, maybe three days. I will write and stop and restart, and continue later, and I don't have to explain to you, but I am just decent enough to inform you early. The news today is not so good. I do not chase it down, but whenever I do hear it, I expect it to be uplifting, but as one associate informed me, that good news does not sell papers or anything else, so we are stuck with bad news so that people can get paid and drive big limo. Today it is a black day, and I am shooting black today. Men and women in black, with a little white.
Today we have the nation's first Governor General lie in State. Today we also have the Chief of Police popular son lie somewhere else, but both are dead. They are both nationals that served their country, and made their contribution. I am not getting any politics, and my condolences go out to both families. The late Governor General is a blood relative of mine, that is family, and I could be seated in the front row at the State Service, but elect to be outside with the masses and onlookers, and taking a photo or two from the sideline, as created from my perspective.
I have not taken any black on black pictures for a while and maybe I have forgotten. Some people have a problem taking black people in black suits in the shade. I don't even bother to take light readings anymore, nor try to determine which zone to place who on. I just photograph on instinct, and where it drop it stop. A funeral is just a funeral, but a State Funeral is a State Funeral. I believe the professional photographer will take an incident light meter reading, then set and shoot the camera in manual, and let the lab technician fix it after that, and he is good to collect his five or six thousand dollars reward. So maybe I walk with the light meter, my Sherlock Holmes pipe, and make look like a real professional, taking light readings.
I have now grown accustomed to being almost invisible, from an unobtrusive and stealth like photographing approach, so as not to alarm folks and provoke any unwarranted reactions. Most of our people are still far from comfortable with black people carrying a camera, and they could set their dog on and after you, but white people with a camera could get royal and red carpet treatment, even champagne. So I am looking for a couple white security guards with wwf experience to put my SKN walkabout safely over the top. But for today we are all looking and focusing on one thing, people, black, in black, on black, with black, all black.
I don't think ISO 100 will work so good for me today, so maybe ISO 400 and 800 could prove better for available light with my 300 mm lens, and maybe a stop or two of exposure compensation. Of course I am not shooting manual. I am spot metering in camera, and finishing up with my Made in Switzerland raw processor. It has worked for me in the past and it should work for me today, only the "spirits" are different, and sometimes they appear to attack the camera, maybe when you are snapping too close, so today I am staying a good distance away in the background, and zoom. Some folks may find this apparent attacking of camera mechanism humorous, but when it happen to you, let me assure you, it will be no laughing matter.
Today is divided into many segments, and the activity has already started, so I will capture what is left over and hopefully post-as-we-go, but if that does not work out ...
Photo taken from the veranda outside the front entrance of Government House. Camera hand held at ISO 800.
Available room lighting ISO 800, camera hand held, casket closed and ready for draping with State flag.
Sir Clement leaves Government House for the last time
[To be continued]
Today we have the nation's first Governor General lie in State. Today we also have the Chief of Police popular son lie somewhere else, but both are dead. They are both nationals that served their country, and made their contribution. I am not getting any politics, and my condolences go out to both families. The late Governor General is a blood relative of mine, that is family, and I could be seated in the front row at the State Service, but elect to be outside with the masses and onlookers, and taking a photo or two from the sideline, as created from my perspective.
I have not taken any black on black pictures for a while and maybe I have forgotten. Some people have a problem taking black people in black suits in the shade. I don't even bother to take light readings anymore, nor try to determine which zone to place who on. I just photograph on instinct, and where it drop it stop. A funeral is just a funeral, but a State Funeral is a State Funeral. I believe the professional photographer will take an incident light meter reading, then set and shoot the camera in manual, and let the lab technician fix it after that, and he is good to collect his five or six thousand dollars reward. So maybe I walk with the light meter, my Sherlock Holmes pipe, and make look like a real professional, taking light readings.
I have now grown accustomed to being almost invisible, from an unobtrusive and stealth like photographing approach, so as not to alarm folks and provoke any unwarranted reactions. Most of our people are still far from comfortable with black people carrying a camera, and they could set their dog on and after you, but white people with a camera could get royal and red carpet treatment, even champagne. So I am looking for a couple white security guards with wwf experience to put my SKN walkabout safely over the top. But for today we are all looking and focusing on one thing, people, black, in black, on black, with black, all black.
I don't think ISO 100 will work so good for me today, so maybe ISO 400 and 800 could prove better for available light with my 300 mm lens, and maybe a stop or two of exposure compensation. Of course I am not shooting manual. I am spot metering in camera, and finishing up with my Made in Switzerland raw processor. It has worked for me in the past and it should work for me today, only the "spirits" are different, and sometimes they appear to attack the camera, maybe when you are snapping too close, so today I am staying a good distance away in the background, and zoom. Some folks may find this apparent attacking of camera mechanism humorous, but when it happen to you, let me assure you, it will be no laughing matter.
Today is divided into many segments, and the activity has already started, so I will capture what is left over and hopefully post-as-we-go, but if that does not work out ...
Photo taken from the veranda outside the front entrance of Government House. Camera hand held at ISO 800.
Available room lighting ISO 800, camera hand held, casket closed and ready for draping with State flag.
Sir Clement leaves Government House for the last time
[To be continued]
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