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Police at scene of shooting massacre in Binghamton, NY


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Thirteen people were killed at the downtown American Civic Association

building by a gunman who also took his own life.

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Good overall view, but I would like to have seen a photo, maybe one to accompany this in a pub, that shows a specific detail or action of the scene. Roughly the top 20% of the surface area of the photo is not contributing to the composition. The top half of the photo is not "pulling its weight", information-wise. Compare this to the bottom 20% of the photo area, that features the police officer near the "Sheriff" patrol car.

 

If you divide the photo into quarters, the bottom left quarter of the photo seems to feature a stronger composition than the picture overall. Also, those officers standing in front of the building in small groups; any one of those small groups, if you could close a frame in on them, would have been good subjects. Good photo.

 

Good that you got on location for an important news event. J.

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Thanks for the comments, John. This photo was used by the paper that assigned me as a scene-setting image to lead off an online folder of photographs taken by a number of shooters covering the police action at the site of the massacre. When I got there, police had set up a perimeter and I had to do some fast talking to get the shots that I did. A shooter from the local paper had arrived shortly after the police and she got shots of hostages being escorted out of the building. AP picked up her work. Thanks for stopping by...Bill
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