[wulinka]

Some of you might have heard about the immigrant marches all over the country, they were quite big in New York. I read somewhere that police estimated over 500,000 participants.
And I was in the middle of it :-) Kind of by accident, so I tried to make the best of it and shot and shot and shot...
Now I am not at all used to this kind of situation, ever changing light conditions, moving subjects, having to walk backwards.... I am kind of proud to say that I had my camara on manual all the time. the down side is that I had a LOT of over-/underexposed shots that could have been really nice.

Even though I lost some 50 or so of my pictures by accident, I was still left with over 300 at the end of the day. Out of those, I picked the most interesting ones that acutally have protest character.
I also got some nice portraits, that don't show too much of the context, and I was pleased with those. maybe I will show them somewhere else.

BTW, I haven't edited any of these yet, just wanted to show kind of the general atmosphere..

Here are my top 20 protest pics, bare with me :-)

(admin: If anyone feels I am using too much space for junk, go ahead and delete some)

uli
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the second half of the motto was: "....tomorrow we vote!" :-)
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uli

[wulinka]

I put these files into an album in my gallery

so if space is needed please delete!

uli

[shuttertalk]

Wow... cool pics! I hope you don't mind - I've moved this thread to the "photo stories" section...

[Russt]

Uli, I'm glad ST moved it here I think it fits the journalistic profile........interesting collection, you've captured the march well!!

(we need #)

[Schellamo]

Some great captures there uli! What an array of different people, its great.

[Toad]

Some really great captures here. Difficult to comment on individually without numbers - but some really outstanding photo journalistic work .

[wulinka]

thanks a billion guys, I really appreciate your feedback. Mind you, this is a small selection from among too many pictures....

[wulinka]

huh, I had missed this one, although it was one of my favorites:

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:-)

[Kombisaurus]

Great job Uli.

Its great to see people setting themselves min-assignments like this. These shots work really well together to capture the mood of the protest.
I can see why #21 is one of your favourites - it is my favourite of the bunch too.
My only minor suggestion when posting a series of shots to document an event like this might be to include one or two wide shots to provide a context for the other shots. Even if the wide shots aren't great themselves, they add meaning to the other shots and provide "glue" to hold the whole thing together as a series. Some other types of shots can also help in this way (ie detail shots).

Cheers
Adrian

[wulinka]

Hey Kombi,

good to see you! I had been kind of wondering if you had had your turn of falling off the face of the earth or something.....

To my defense I have to say that I tried take some wide shots to capture the crowd, they just did not work at all.
Partially because Manhatten is all blocks, and the march went down Broadway.
So I always had badly underexposed and badly overexposed areas (crossway vs. block) in the shots. Or I couldn't find a good vantage point (I am tiny), and had to shoot blindly, which never worked.

So I concentrated on more or less single or few people. But you are absolutely right saying that this way, I am missing important parts of the spirit of it all.

Next time!

Thanks for your comment, uli

[Kombisaurus]

I'm still hanging on Uli... but to my surpise I've had a bit of a busy social life for the last week or two (I'd almost forgotten what that was!). I've got no intention of going anywhere though.

It would be a tough gig trying to accurately photograph a protest I think. And I must say that I've never done one so I can't speak from experience. Of course the tall city blocks would cause havok with natural lighting I guess... but I'm jealous of anyone with the opportunity to wander NY taking street photos. There must be some amazing things to see.

Cheers
Adrian