One week to go and the race shifts into high gear. Bill Clinton made multiple appearances in Pa. today. I covered his first stop at the Steel Workers Union Hall in Coatesville. Former Governor Ed Rendell introduced the former President, and I captured a moment that has caused many laughs in the newsroom, and a scramble to figure out how to justify running the photo.
The second image is another totally random moment. Catching someone else's flash is pretty typical, but I have never had it happen so brightly and specifically as to cause a reverse silhouette. It almost looks like he was erased from the image.
These sort of surprises were much more typical back in the film days. Since I didn't chimp all my images I didn't know about either of these until having downloaded.
I have had flashbacks (no pun intended) to the days of yesteryear. Sadly, they were only a few years ago. In the past 11 years I have gone from shooting and processing black and white film, printing half tones which were sized for the hole on the page designated for them, waxing them and pasting them on the page. Then it was color neg, first dipped and dunked and then processed through a Wing Lynch. Those negs were scanned and the electronic file then made its way to those who put together the paper. We are now on our second generation of digital cameras at the paper (I am on my third personally).
The fastest I could turn around a roll of film was 25 minutes from entering the darkroom to having the images scanned. Now I can be done and on my way home in 25 minutes, that is if I haven't sent the photos from the comfort of my own couch!
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