Caught in the Act: Indonesia and The Act of Killing a public panel presentation that will be presented in MIFF for 2013 as part of the Talking Pictures Program. Tito Ambyo talked to director Joshua Oppenheimer via Skype link and special guests Jess Melvin with Tom Zubrycki about capturing the atrocity of the Indonesian 1965-66 killings, and doing it via the lens of pop cultural fixation.
This was the fifth event out of six I covered for MIFF 2013. After the challenges of the lighting at the Forum Theater I felt more relaxed about the Wheeler Center. However I was presented with another challenge, one of the panelists was projected overhead via Skype. This time the challenge was not in the lighting but in the composition. One of the ways I attempted to rise to the challenge was to capture Joshua's image on the laptop.
For this event I used the Nikon D800 which up until now I'd been avoiding due to its large file size. As it turned out it proved to be the best camera of them all. The high resolution providing almost limitless scope for cropping. The ability to crop in event photography is priceless, as it is not always possible to get sufficiently close to subjects.
This was the fifth event out of six I covered for MIFF 2013. After the challenges of the lighting at the Forum Theater I felt more relaxed about the Wheeler Center. However I was presented with another challenge, one of the panelists was projected overhead via Skype. This time the challenge was not in the lighting but in the composition. One of the ways I attempted to rise to the challenge was to capture Joshua's image on the laptop.
For this event I used the Nikon D800 which up until now I'd been avoiding due to its large file size. As it turned out it proved to be the best camera of them all. The high resolution providing almost limitless scope for cropping. The ability to crop in event photography is priceless, as it is not always possible to get sufficiently close to subjects.
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