Well of course, I didn’t go. But thats not to say that thousands, maybe even millions, of kids each year don’t. My editor sent me in a 1hr mission, and that was to capture one photo. Sounds easy? Riiight… I want a photo of the pie stuffing, and maybe a few others if you can get them. Now of course, its a friday night, I won’t be doing much of anything, and I said I got it, don’t worry. Hung up the phone, and I waited. The worst thing for a photographer, for me is to over think on a certain photograph your going to take. It’s one thing to plan for it and another thing to think, wait a minute I could do it this way… or this way and so on. I began to get a little nervous, which is uncharacteristic of me when going to a shoot, so I decided to try and shrug it off. 7 o’clock roles around, I’m at the school stadium where the last night of band camp is being held. 45 minutes into the shoot, i’ve shoot a little over a hundred photos, just blasting away, having a good time listening to the bands “excerpts”, showing the parents a glimpse of the music they will be orchestrating during the season. Hundred’s of parents sat down on the stadium seats, and listened in. So finally they begin their little “march” competition, to see who can march the best for the longest, doing different marches called out by the band director. He happened to be calling the marches, despite his own rude awakening soon coming. Finally a kid by the name Mark wins. Crowd roars, out comes the pie. I’ll tell you, it is NOT easy to get in the middle of 100 plus high school students, just to get a shot of the teacher getting pied by a student in the face. I realized this night, that it wasn’t annoying for kids to get in the way, it’s not their job to watch a photographer trying to take a shot, its their night not mine. But what was annoying, was that I was a voice cord away from telling a photographer to get the hell out of the way, and ruining everyones night. I coughed like an ass, he looked back, and then he kneeled down. I would assume he grabbed a neat shot, with a cool angle. but no i couldn’t, because he was square in front of me. So i stood their, we were all waiting as he removed any electronic pieces. Headphones, microphones, etc. And in comes the pie, you could just see peoples eyes were wide, and none of them were closing, incase they missed it. Finally, Mike gets the pie, Band Director Marty Claussen gets ready, Mike fires up!…
August 30, 2008...2:27 pm
One day at band camp…
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September 1, 2008 at 3:50 am
and you were worried? perfect shot dude, it’s in your blood. nice job!