Italian Police 2, a photo from Rome, Lazio

Photographer's Note

Second in a small series of photos from the peace demonstrations that took place in Rome (and Europe) 2005. Taking a low POV and head on you get a confrontation shot at the police. There were several hundred police on duty this day. Overkill or what?

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zips (1958) 2006-10-25 10:36

Nice shot here Mark. The flash really works here to emphasize POLIZIA. This could probably be used in a number of different types of stories.

Low POV was the way to go here.

Great Job.
Aloha, JB

vthomas (441) 2006-10-25 10:39

Hi Mark!
Hehe, you really like the italian police ;-)
Ok, I have to be honest, I really liked the previous one like I said in my note but this one is (for me) much less interesting. One reason is that there is no feel of "something is happening", no feel of a tension (as you could expect in a demonstration, be it "peace demonstartion" ;-)), like I could feel in the last photo. Here the guys look just relax, posing like a football team, and they don't even look scary (well sure they could easily kick my ass! hehe). Not that it's a bad photo but just I don't have the same feeling as I had with the previous one which was really good!
Cheers
vincent

fadingstar78 (420) 2006-10-26 7:10

yes, there isn't much tension in this pic. It's not a really 'decisive moment'. The policeman look even scared. but it's a nice picture and well composed.

maciekda (19895) 2006-11-01 10:16

nice image Mark, you need quite a lot of courage to take pics like this, good composition, maybe the flash is slightly too strong, but it is tricky.. nice work