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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
it is definately a sacrifice. When you tape or photograph an event you only get to see one small part of it, and that only through a camera viewfinder. You really do miss a lot of whats going on around you. Its almost like you are not really there, you are seeing it remotely on a tiny little screen.
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Not only that, it's extremely difficult to both do your job and participate at the same time. Besides drivers, I'm most likely going to be alone on the field for a majority of the time, so my championship experience this year is going to be very different than last year's.
The solution, a coalition of media people as proposed in
this thread. The thread is effectively dead right now, perhaps due to lack of interest. But, it seems we're a little more into it now. I'm not sure where to hold yet seeing as we could potentially have plenty of people, or a just a few.
If we can, we really should coordinate something to make coverage of Atlanta a lot easier. It's up to us to represent our teams and FIRST to the outside world, so everything that can be done to help this would be very helpful to all parties involved. Of course, newspapers usually don't think of us as "photographers" in the way they use the term, but when it boils down to it, we're the ones that have to do their job. I don't think any of the local newspapers around here want to attach a photographer and a journalist to the team for 4 days just to cover Atlanta. They'd much write an article with our guidance and use photos that we've taken.
Really, having a buddy or two during competiton would be quite helpful while "on the job". I could go on rambling about how nice it would be to have someone else there while you're shooting, but as of now, I have no clue whether or not we can hold a media meeting. Who knows? Maybe it'll be like a second webhug! Perhaps right after the webhug? Wait, when is that? How's lunchtime, Thursday sound for people?
Brandon, we are having another webhug, right?