Photographers rights rally on Saturday

[Barr1e]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

Thanks for the pix and video. More importantly you were there.

Regards. Barr1e

[Ian]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

Thanks for the pix and video. More importantly you were there.

Regards. Barr1e

There is more coming

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

A plate camera photographer at the photographers rights meet today:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_o44Ln4c4"]Even a plate camera makes its stand - YouTube[/ame]

It's a Chinese camera, but has a German lens

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

Police and PCSOs surrounded by protesters, but it was all prefectly peaceful. One PCSO did (off camera) seem to be bothering a woman unnecessarily though.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGITUHzSGj0"]Police and PCSOs at photographers rights gathering get a heated reception - YouTube[/ame]

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

You could really feel the depth of this gentleman's feeling in the way he spoke, even though he spoke with the utmost politeness:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ntiuPRr8U"]Photographers should not be arrested or molested for taking pictures in public areas - YouTube[/ame]

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

This time the subject of unhelpful security guards is highlighted:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5L4elO-Yk"]Security people, rather than police are often the problem for photographers - YouTube[/ame]

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

There are more pix in my gallery here if you are interested:

http://dpnow.com/galleries/showgallery.php/cat/547

Ian

[Pol]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

Those are nice quality videos - good sound too.

Were you using separate a microphone or was it inbuilt?

Pol

[Ian]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

Those are nice quality videos - good sound too.

Were you using separate a microphone or was it inbuilt?

Pol

Hi Pol, thanks for that I used an Olympus Pen E-P2 and no, I just used the internal microphones, but they are stereo, unlike many other cameras that have a video recording facility. Olympus' experience in audio recorders have have rubbed off.

The videos are quite heavily compressed (except for the very first one, which I uploaded straight from the camera file), so I'm pleased that the quality has not been eroded too badly.

Ian

[Shenstone]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

Ian

Many thanks for posting all of this it looks like it was a good day and it was good for this issue to be hitting some mainstream news services

To everyone who was able to be there ... many thanks for speaking up for us all !

Regards
Andy

[Pol]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

Hi Pol, thanks for that I used an Olympus Pen E-P2 and no, I just used the internal microphones, but they are stereo, unlike many other cameras that have a video recording facility. Olympus' experience in audio recorders have have rubbed off.

The videos are quite heavily compressed (except for the very first one, which I uploaded straight from the camera file), so I'm pleased that the quality has not been eroded too badly.

Ian

Excellent quality imho. I'd noticed, from the exif, you'd taken the stills with the E-P2 but wondered if you might've used a dedicated Digtal movie camera + external microphone for the videos (as they're so good).

Pol

[Ian]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

Ian

Many thanks for posting all of this it looks like it was a good day and it was good for this issue to be hitting some mainstream news services

To everyone who was able to be there ... many thanks for speaking up for us all !

Regards
Andy

Hi Andy! Nice to see you here

Ian

[Stephen]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

All very interesting stuff Ian, and Kudos goes for you for making the effort to attend the gathering. Seems like it was also a good occasion to hone your video skills with the E-P2

[Ian]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

It's been commented that there is a difference in the colour between the movies and the stills - the latter were processed by me in LR and the movies are unchanged. The camera did go for a cooler white balance. I'd be interested to know which people prefer here

Ian

[Pol]

Re: Photographers rights rally on Saturday

It's been commented that there is a difference in the colour between the movies and the stills - the latter were processed by me in LR and the movies are unchanged. The camera did go for a cooler white balance. I'd be interested to know which people prefer here

Ian

I prefer the colours in the videos. I agree they're probably cooler but they also seem to be brighter and true.

The stills don't seem to have what I would regard as true blacks - there seems to be a slight reddish/brown hue overlay. For example - in the first still you posted at the start of this thread, everyone seems to have an auburn tint to their hair. The background buildings also have a red/brownish tinge.

Pol