One thing that did help was that with the bigma and the tripod, it seems that more people than not assumed that I was the official photographer.
I actually did an end run around a lot of the crowds and wandered to just outside the spectator area, to where the cops were to get a better angle, making sure that I wasn't actually in anyone's way. If I'm in this situation again, I may go for a bit more chutzpah and follow Cotty's advice. On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: > These observations are well-timed, as it is the season for all of the > end-of-year hoopla for the kiddos. This past weekend, there was a > soccer tournament, piano recital and gymnastics meet... and I have a > crap-tastic selection of photos to prove it. > > As the parent in these situations, I also struggle with my role of > photographer. It's hard to enjoy the moment, and try to record it > well at the same time... Back in high school a friend asked me to photograph her wedding. I learned that afternoon that it is damn near impossible to be both a photographer and a spectator. You use too many brain cells on the photography to have any left over for the event. In your position I'd be tempted to find another parent/photographer and work a deal that I'd photograph their kids event, if they did mine. > > -c > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
