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Earlier this year the British Peoples Party held a demo against music of black origin being sold at HMV in Leeds.
12 members of the BPP turned up... and approx 500 Leeds folk in a counter protest.
| Camera: | Nikon D50  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | Sigma 70-300 |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | The Fuzz |
| Username: | 
TomG |
| Uploaded: | 27 Dec 2008 - 10:59 PM |
| Tags: | Bpp, Fascists, General, Leeds, Photo journalism, Police, Portraits / people, Protest |
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Cheers for the comments folks.
The reason for the mono was due to the sun shining direct down the alley and throwing the colours out from light to shade. I didn't have the time to get the right settings!
I cropped each cop as a different layer and then played about with turning them on and off in different configurations...in the end I couldn't decide :o)
Cheers
t
its an unusual scene, but needs to say more than it does. its just a picture of some police..
Id have loved to have seen some of the tension, and perhaps had HMV more prominent in the shot.
maybe even dropping to a low angle, and getting in closer, would have given the police a more dominating and impressive appearance.
you maybe have those shots? but the edit is a much of the shoot as the pics themselves. if you have to choose just one shot to tell the story.......
croberts: Agree with what your saying. When I first arrived I managed to get through the police line by looking purposeful and waving my camera. I got close to the protesters but there was one cop going round checking photographers for press ID..... Hence i got panicky and started firing of shots willy-nilly before being thrown out, the result being lots of crappy blurred images of what could have been great..
Live an learn eh?
t
Nice shot I like this, I like the selective colour myself on the police as to me upon arriving on that scene a person would be instantly drawn to the police presence which I feel the image has captured, would have been great if it had more foreground in front of them maybe some of the street leading into them for more impact - but given your circumstances at the time you just take what you can - still a nice shot capturing the day nicely - can also see what Croberts says being lower would have a really strong impact but can see you wasn't able to do that with them hunting for ID etc
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