{"id":1634,"date":"2012-05-19T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T10:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2012-05-19T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T10:28:02","slug":"energy-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Energy Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"

My big problem in covering the ‘Big Six Energy Bash<\/em>‘ protest outside the UK Climate Summit on 3 May was too many unsharp pictures – mainly a bad case of camera shake. You can see it in this picture:<\/p>\n

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but in many images it was much worse, making them unusable.\u00a0 The picture above was taken at 1\/30 f4 with a 16mm lens, and some of the lack of sharpness may be due to subject movement, but most of the ruined images were at faster speeds – 1\/50 or 1\/60 – and with the 16mm I would normally expect most of them to have been sharp.<\/p>\n

Of course in retrospect I should have increased the ISO above the ISO1250 I was working at, but that had served perfectly well for pictures earlier in the event – even when I was photographing people on the move. I just had not realised how dim the light was in the street in front of the hotel where the picture above was taken.<\/p>\n

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A little movement blur – as on the figure in white at the left above – I always thinks adds a little life to images like this, taken a little earlier around the adjoining side of the hotel.<\/p>\n

I think the real difference was not in the light but in what had happened to me. Shortly after taking the second picture I was knocked to the ground as people surged back when police rushed into the crowd of protesters, and just a minute or two before taking the top image I’d been hit full on by a protester bodily thrown in my direction by a police officer, again getting knocked to the ground.<\/p>\n

Fortunately I wasn’t injured – just the odd bruise – and nor was my equipment, but I was quite shaken, and I picked myself up, said “Don’t worry, not your fault” to the protester who had landed on me and was apologising profusely and kept on working. Although I felt fine, judging by both the blurred pictures and the number of colleagues who came to ask me if I was ok, I was obviously not quite. The adrenaline rush was keeping me at it when really I should have gone and sat down somewhere quiet for a few minutes to recover. And perhaps have had a cup of tea.<\/p>\n

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I did get some pictures that were reasonably sharp, although my personal favourite isn’t quite as sharp as I would wish.<\/p>\n

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Even with a 16mm there are limits to depth of field when working wide open (1\/80 f4) and the woman at the front is very close to me, and was walking past, so may show some subject movement.\u00a0 I did a little local brushing to sharpen her eyes (increasing sharpness and clarity) and also increased both contrast and exposure a little.<\/p>\n

Other pictures were mainly in better light and I had fewer problems, though getting quite the picture you want in fairly fluid circumstances isn’t easy.<\/p>\n

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It was a protest with dinosaurs and I did my best to capture some of the rather surreal possibilities. You can see more of the pictures I took in UK Energy Summit – Big 6 Bash<\/a> on My London Diary<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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My London Diary<\/a> : Buildings of London<\/a> : River Lea\/Lee Valley<\/a> : London’s Industrial Heritage<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated are by Peter Marshall and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/small><\/p>\n

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My big problem in covering the ‘Big Six Energy Bash‘ protest outside the UK Climate Summit on 3 May was too many unsharp pictures – mainly a bad case of camera shake. You can see it in this picture: but in many images it was much worse, making them unusable.\u00a0 The picture above was taken … Continue reading Energy Bash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}