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Well, there is this: Nikon Made the Weirdest Music Video for Its 100th Birthday

Caution, some may find this cheesy, weird and otherwise harmful to ones health.

The Romans lost to my Teutonic ancestors. Let the plural be "forums", nicht so? Some 470 years earlier, Cicero backed the losing candidate. Some things never change.

A foray in to the fora!

I am sure glad I am not a press photographer, what a circus! There appear to be about 40 photographers around (how many of those are allowed or have put up remote cameras as well?); that's a lot of man power and equipment and for what exactly (everything was video-taped from various angles, so why have any photographers in the room)? Obviously, based on position, only a few could have gotten that shot in question. So kudos to the photographer to be at the right place at the right time well prepared and ready to take whatever he could. But in the end it's still "just a lucky shot". Instantly transmitted to the photo editors in NYC and published withing minutes (for what reason actually?).

 

As an aside, there appeared to be a lot more Canon than Nikon among those press photographers, and not all seem to be shooting with the pro-style bodies.

As I've pondered this for a while, I started to wonder about what pictures those cheap/millennial/smartphone-toting newspapers were able to capture.

And, I agree, a government man talking into a microphone is not particularly newsworthy, nor is it a shot of a decisive moment, it may come to be an iconic picture years from now. And it may help stave off the demise of professional photo journalism for some time.

Chazfenn, I agree there is something odd about the image. Almost like it's two superimposed shots. The blur is in front of the "sharper" image, i.e., it coms later in the exposure sequence.

But, yes, as has been suggested, let's see a static shot so we can learn more.

It's a puzzlement!

Good travel photographs must incorporate 3 things:

context--show objects, people, wildlife, etc., in context, not isolation. The essence of place.

scales-- don't go for just close up shots but include pull-back shots to show perspective.

Authenticity-- don't go for the cheesy, posed pictures.

I agree with netr and Brian, above; this represents alternative facts, and is not particularly useful. Yes, here are key differences between the 3 formats, and NO, this is too simplistic to do those differences justice-to say nothing about the strengths and weaknesses of each.

Close, perhaps, and certainly no cigar!