gareth_harper

Hello John, thank-you for taking an interest in my photograph.

I've got the images bracketed, as it's impossible to take a meaningful light reading in a cinema, and of course the camera has to be tri-pod mounted. I think the exposure of the one I used here was about 15 seconds at about f3.5 on 800asa film.

I probably need to get somewhere inbetween your version and what I already have, to maintain the idea of darkness in the cinema.

As I do photojourno style work I'm wary of manipulation such as sandwiching two images together, but it's probably not really breaking the rules in this case, so I'll give it a go. Sadly I've got a pile of other stuff to work on this week, but this is one I'll come back to and re-work at some point.

Also when I next get the oppertinity to take cinema shots I'll take a small torch along. I had to guess the focal setting as I wasn't even able to see the lens distance markings! As I used a 24mm lens I got away with it.

Again thank-you for your comments and taking an interest in my photo.

Thanks for commenting John,

I don't know if you've ever tried taking pictures in a cinema. It's really hit and miss, and this exposure wise is as good as I'd expect to get. The cinema is lit only by the screen. So that makes it difficult, expose for the audience and the screen blows out, expose for the screen and you get no audience. I did have to do quite a bit of work in photoshop to get this, nothing major but it had to be treated as two seperate photographs for one thing. Of course the other option is to take it further and stick two photos together! I might just try that.

I went for a classic thirds composition. Do click on large to view, and bear in mind it's 800 asa colour neg film.

But thank-you for commenting, and I appreciate people being honest.

Ach you are too kind Mr Farrell.

Perhaps it's more of a documentary shot, rather than a news shot.

The film is only 25 minutes long. I shot from 3 different positions, and yes had to wait for periods of light from the screen. Exposure was a guess and I bracketed +/- 2 stops with colour neg film in the hope of getting something workable.

That's Gary Lewis on the screen by the way. Played Billy Elliot's in err 'Billy Elliot', has also appeared in 'Gangs of New York' and many other films. I was lucky to get some definition on the screen.

If you are interested in the film itself, let me know, I'll make sure you get a copy, and guess what? It's free! It's a free film, and this was a free event.

Thank-you once more for your kind comments, and indeed the thought provoking quote from Tennyson.

Thank-you for being honest Mr Farrell. Maybe this is one of those occasions where my attachment to the photograph clouds my judgement. I'm also aware that many who rate and critique on this forum don't fully understand the concept of the news/photojournalistic photo.

I'm kinda fond of the way it looks, plus I'm very much attached to the content being a member of the guerilla film collective. I also wasn't sure if this would work at all when I took the shot. So perhaps in reflection I've maybe not thought enougth about whether it works in terms of a news shot.

Anyway thanks for commenting Mr Farrell.

I'm surprised at the ratings on this. Do click on large to view. And please do comment, 3,3 does not help me unless you say what is wrong with the picture.

Gareth.

The Glasgow based film makers, Camcorder Guerillas, premier their new film, 'Dungavel, Monster of the Glen' at the Glasgow Film Theatre.

Comments most welcome.

Camcorder Guerillas

Photoecosse.net

Nice shot.

I know what you mean about 1,1's, but to honest I don't care. I don't try to seperate my politics from photography. And the best reporters always had/have an angle. On the other hand I'm usually capable (some or most of the time anyway) of seperating my views from the picture on photonet. I can rate high and slag of the message, not always easy.

What did I do that week? I went hunting terrorists, eight of the biggest in the world gathered just up the road from me!

Thank-you Mr Farrell.

I think the human rights, anti-war, anti-globalisation and enviromental groups are slowly growing. There are also coming together, everything is inter-linked. There's not the massive numbers that we all saw in 2003, but there is a much bigger committed and growing base movement.

Hve you checked out indymedia? Started in the US in 1999, and has spread all round the world.

Good to see you have posted more photos.

I really like this one.

John Pilger, considered by many to be one of the great investigative journalists of our time, almost mobbed as if he were a pop star.Anti-war demo Hyde Park, 24th September 2005

Comments most welcome.

Photoecosse.net

Hello Micha, great composition.

Oh yes, I fully understand what you are saying about those 1,1's!

Thanks for the comment Micha. My friends death had nothing to do with drugs, he just had a massive and sudden heart attack, 46 years old, such a shame. Quite a number of kids I went to school with have indeed died from drug abuse though, such a waste.

Anyway, glad you like the photograph.

The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army at the demonstration

against climate change, 'Boogie on the Bridge', during this years G8

summit in Scotland.

Gosh talk about bad ratings. Don't expect people here at photonet to understand photographs beyond pretty landscapes, snaps of cute kids or the pet cat. But do keep posting them, and do tell us a bit more about them.