Comments on: A picture from both sides

By: Ministros indignos

Ministros indignos — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:24:02 +0000

[...] mostrar su preferencia por Obama. En esa visita mexicana vimos a un ministro relajado: hizo bromas, se permitió tomar una foto (desenfocada) a los fotógrafos que lo asediaban, se le veía contento. Nada parecía presagiar su [...]

By: Pavel Kashaev (Russia)

Pavel Kashaev (Russia) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:34:17 +0000

Do not pay attention to empty chatter conversations when suddenly there is simply amusing case - what for on it grandiloquently to argue??!! Simply amusing pictures - minister probably simply wished to show the affinity to people, availability, interest someone’s needs??

By: Phoenix Photographers

Phoenix Photographers — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:07:15 +0000

I think you instinct was spot on AND you still got a great story to tell.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:47:48 +0000

Also the question is… are you allowed to publish it since you aren’t the one who took the photo???? the copyright is not yours since you didn’t took the photo, did you took the time to do the paperwork or you simply posted it ;)???

It would be interesting to know if you did all the paperwork to publish the photo taken by another person.

By: Guerra y Paz » Blog Archive » Un ministro metido a fotógrafo

Guerra y Paz » Blog Archive » Un ministro metido a fotógrafo — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:01:43 +0000

[...] secuencia entera la cuenta Daniel Aguilera en el blog de los fotógrafos de [...]

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:39:23 +0000

But you should have told him to press the AE lock to focus! Actually he might have taken a good picture: the framing is not that bad.
http://www.pictobank.com

By: Balint

Balint — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:10:50 +0000

Zac has a point here and I don’t mean to argue with it

You did well, have some fun pictures and a story to tell. What more do you want at the end of the day?

Although as you know your pictures are hard to understand without this many explanation which questions the validity of the _news_ content of your picture… But now I’m totally lost.

By: Zac Goodwin

Zac Goodwin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:49:30 +0000

I agree with the part where as a news photographer your job is to remain invisible as possible and let events unfold as they do, but I don’t think you made the wrong call in that situation. Moreover, I think you might have done the honorable thing, hopefully going from a part of that faceless mass of lenses that followed him to a real person, but then again I may just be overly optimistic.

As to it’s newsy-ness, being that he addressed you specifically, with out your prompting (more probably to your annoyance) it doesn’t invalidate it as being news worthy. In a fashion he was interacting with his environment that he happens to be in, which included you. Granted that image probably isn’t the best, in the same way that the yahoos at sports games lean over the railing and call out to have their picture taken, but it is an accurate depiction of what happened. If it hadn’t been your camera but a different photographer’s would you have questioned it at all?

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:06:03 +0000

How could you trust a minister ? Do you realize that you put in the hands of a politician something like 8000 $ ?

God job !