Stonehenge…in court?

Photographed a perpetrator in Circuit Court today.  Court is always touchy because of several factors.  One, you don’t want to interrupt the proceedings with your loud shutter.  Two, chances are, the person you are photographing does NOT want his/her photograph taken while up there.  Three, the photographer is relegated to the corner of the exit door because the jurors are taking up the whole other half of the courtroom, which means a side view shot.

…Of course, all of the above happened to me today.  But I managed to line up Pulu Mataalaeli, who is accused of attempted murder for allegedly tossing his 7-month old child around in a van during an argument with his girlfriend, with one of his lawyers for a graphically sound image, almost Stonehengey in look.

Canon EOS 1D Mark III, EF 70-200 2.8L IS at 280mm (with a 1.4 extender), Exposure mode: Manual, 1/320 @ f4, ISO 3200, tungsten whitebalance

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5 Responses to “Stonehenge…in court?”

1. kent Says:
   June 19th, 2009 at 12:01 pm

   wow with a 1.4x extender in the courtroom. wowzers. i wish the D200s the advertiser issued me would handle noise that nicely. LOL. i havent gotten a court assignment yet. the one day i tagged along with bruce i forgot something important for making images…my batteries. T_T

2. Andy Says:
   June 19th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

   Do ‘ya mean Easter Island / Rapa Nui?

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island

   I always enjoy seeing your work and the story / tech details behind it.

3. Gary Hall Says:
   June 20th, 2009 at 8:20 am

   I don’t know why I haven’t asked before, but do you take RAW (CR2 images) and process it later? The reason is that I use just auto white balance and control the temperature when using ACR RAW processing. I haven’t taken a jpeg in several years now.

   Just curious – thanks.

4. jammaquino Says:
   June 20th, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   Andy,
   Whoops yes that’s what I meant!:) forgive my uninformed blunder!

   Gary,
   I shoot Raw on certain occasions only because of time restraints. I don’t tone my images, and we’re always on deadline so nailing the exposures is one of my top priorities
   .

5. David Says:
   June 26th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

   Hmmm, maybe you meant Mt Rushmore rather than Stonehenge or Rapa Nui?

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