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Inauguration Remote from Chuck Kennedy

David Manning, Photographer

	Athens \| GA \| \| Posted: 7:50 PM on 01.20.09
	->> http://tinyurl.com/a36o3a Photographer Chuck Kennedy put a remote at the base of the podium for Obama's swearing in.

Preston Mack, Photographer

	Orlando \| FL \| USA \| Posted: 7:55 PM on 01.20.09
	->> What a great photo.

Danny Gawlowski, Photographer

	Bellingham \| WA \| USA \| Posted: 7:59 PM on 01.20.09
	->> I really appreciate all of the work Chuck put in so that he could make that image. Congrats Chuck! And thanks!

Jason Braverman, Photographer, Photo Editor

	Atlanta \| GA \| USA \| Posted: 8:16 PM on 01.20.09
	->> Great stuff moved across the wires today, but this was definitely one that stood out of the crowd. Nice work Chuck!

Fraser Britton, Photographer

	Ste Anne de Bellevue \| QC \| Canada \| Posted: 8:29 PM on 01.20.09
	->> Very cool, good to see a different shot from a century plus old event.

Walter Calahan, Photographer

	Westminster \| MD \| USA \| Posted: 8:47 PM on 01.20.09
	->> Great Job Chuck!!!!! Genius and persistence combined. But why no SportsShooter sticker on the Pelican Case??? Grin.

D. Ross Cameron, Photographer

	Oakland \| CA \| USA \| Posted: 9:05 PM on 01.20.09
	->> Wow. That's tremendous. Previsualization, I think, was the term Ansel Adams used... Great shot. Appreciatively, DRC

Bradly J. Boner, Photographer, Photo Editor

	Jackson \| WY \| USA \| Posted: 9:18 PM on 01.20.09
	->> Frasier - "... a century plus old event." Are you talking about the inauguration itself, or PHOTOGRAPHING the inauguration? The inauguration itself is more than TWO centuries old... Of course, maybe another century is what you meant by "plus."

George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor

Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 9:20 PM on 01.20.09

->> Walter,

Because the gurus at SportsShooter haven't branded a Pelican case yet.

Seriously, since I'm quoted in the article and I crawled around on the frozen marble underneath the platform to help run the wiring I can comment on it but all I'll say is that Chuck overcame a lot of hurdles thrown in his way by anticipating the questions and having the right answers.

It paid off in the image you see.

Robert Meyer, Photographer, Student/Intern

	Lincoln \| NE \| United States \| Posted: 10:10 PM on 01.20.09
	->> Simple. Elegant. Impactful. A great example of a 'defining moment' captured with still photography that could never be fully expressed through video. Cheers Chuck!

Daniel Putz, Photographer

	Jefferson \| MD \| USA \| Posted: 10:15 PM on 01.20.09
	->> Speechless. Awe. Seeing the moment. Words cannot do it justice. Good work!

Matt McLoone, Student/Intern, Photographer

	Ventura \| CA \| United States \| Posted: 10:30 PM on 01.20.09
	->> Fricken Awesome. I love it.

Christopher Szagola, Photographer

	Richboro \| PA \| United States \| Posted: 10:37 PM on 01.20.09
	->> Awesome image, George, just curious if you know, was he able to see a live view on a computer as he was shooting, or was it capture the images and see after all is said and done. See hard work and thinking inside the pelican case does work :) Here Here, Chuck!!!

Shelly Castellano, Photographer

	Huntington Beach \| CA \| USA \| Posted: 10:40 PM on 01.20.09
	->> Excellent

Peter DaSilva, Photographer

	Oakland \| CA \| USA \| Posted: 11:22 PM on 01.20.09
	->> George? Bogen, Canon, Pelican but no OverXposed? Thanks...ha ha Thanks for the heads up and the early pic. Need to get a copy of Scott Applewhite's shot with President Obama by the remote. Cheers to you, Chuck and Mark Abrahams, I know he helped pave the way. Peter

Will Lester, Photographer

	Ontario \| CA \| USA \| Posted: 11:35 PM on 01.20.09
	->> I pushed Chuck's photo today for our A1 CP. But, I'm sure the designers will pick the standard old tired photo. Hopefully I'll be surprised.

Ian L. Sitren, Photographer

	Palm Springs \| CA \| USA \| Posted: 11:47 PM on 01.20.09
	->> Very impressive George! Obviously you did some great wire crawling! What a great idea Chuck, good doing!!

Pouya Dianat, Photographer

	Atlanta \| GA \| USA \| Posted: 12:53 AM on 01.21.09
	->> Chuck, George- Congrats! Great idea, I hope editors somewhere have enough sense to use it. Nice to see a photo that isn't obscured by 20 tons of bullet proof glass.

Mark Buffalo, Photographer

	Lonoke \| AR \| USA \| Posted: 1:01 AM on 01.21.09
	->> this is an awesome shot.

David G. McIntyre, Photographer

	Beijing \| . \| CHINA \| Posted: 1:07 AM on 01.21.09
	->> POC!!!! (Picture of the Century)

Danny Gawlowski, Photographer

	Bellingham \| WA \| USA \| Posted: 1:26 AM on 01.21.09
	->> My paper is using it as a vertical across all of our A1. Just the masthead and the photo. It looks great. Again, great job, Chuck.

David Harpe, Photographer

	Louisville \| KY \| USA \| Posted: 1:41 AM on 01.21.09
	->> Awesome job. I can't even imagine how much hassle it must have been to get approval for that rig. The technical challenge pales by comparison...

Larz Schwartz, Photographer

	Chandler \| AZ \| USA \| Posted: 2:41 AM on 01.21.09
	->> Nice work and very inspiring! Shows what can be done with some hard work! Congratulations for getting the shot! Larz

Kent Nishimura, Student/Intern

	Honolulu \| HI \| USA \| Posted: 7:17 AM on 01.21.09
	->> An Iconic Image. aloha Chuck. thank you.

David Harpe, Photographer

	Louisville \| KY \| USA \| Posted: 7:37 AM on 01.21.09
	->> http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp A lot of papers used that for the A1. Good job Chuck!

Alex Menendez, Photographer

	Orlando \| FL \| USA \| Posted: 8:51 AM on 01.21.09
	->> Front page of the Orlando Sentinel this morning. Great job.

Dave Einsel, Photographer, Photo Editor

Houston | TX | United States | Posted: 9:14 AM on 01.21.09

->> Huge hats off to Chuck, George and all involved. A historic image of a historic event.

It is fascinating to peruse the front pages and see how many different ways the photo was used. My hometown paper and a few others put type on it, UGH! Some others cropped out the kids and made it a vertical. Some really scary ones had designer run amuck composites with other pictures. The smart ones, IMHO, used it BIG and STRAIGHT.

Again, simply beautiful. Great job.

Ian Halperin, Photographer

	Plano(Dallas) \| TX \| USA \| Posted: 9:18 AM on 01.21.09
	->> It's Pg. 1 of the Dallas Morning News. First thing I heard from a co-worker: "It's a staged shot. They set that up. That's not how it looked on TV." I was able to set them straight. Great job!!!!!

George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor

Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 11:11 AM on 01.21.09

->> Pete, I did say OverXposed but it was cut out, here is what I sent to them:

"It is mounted on a camera plate (an OverXposed plate if you want to be exact) that is screwed into the platform and then mounted on a Bogen arm."

Take it up with the writer!!!

Seriously, if anyone ran it on the front of their paper or as a double truck can you send the clips or a PDF to me?

We did not do Live View on it, though I guess we could have. Chuck was busy shooting hand-helds of the event at the same time and making some other nice images that way. It was triggered by a foot-pedal on about 250 feet of zip line.

Chuck set the camera to shoot RAW+jpeg but due to bandwidth transmitted only the JPEG. All the images were sent through the transmitter and DSL line to the office where they were edited then sent to our clients and distributed by everyone participating in the pool so that is why you will see it credited as McClatchy-Tribune or MCT, AP, Getty, Reuters, EPA or simply Pool photo via XX. Because of the file size it took a while for all of the images from the remote to come thru for editing but I am happy to say that MCT's first image of Obama with his hand in the air posted to clients at 12:14 p.m., about 8 minutes after it happened.

I will stress again that this was Chuck's baby. All I did was be a sounding board for his ideas of how to circumvent any questions the organizers of the JCIC may have. That and logistics of transmitting from the camera. The idea and vision was all his.

(and, yes, over the last few years of working Final Fours and other events with the WFT units I've become a damn good wire crawler. For the record, when it's in the 20s marble gets very, very cold.)

George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor

	Washington \| DC \| USA \| Posted: 11:12 AM on 01.21.09
	->> Oh, and Pete. We need some of those black risers. The red sticks out just a bit in that set up? ;-)

David Eulitt, Photographer

	Kansas City \| MO \| USA \| Posted: 11:20 AM on 01.21.09
	->> Kudos to Chuck and MCT....a great surprise to see that angle!

Ron Jenkins, Photographer

	Fort Worth \| Tx \| USA \| Posted: 11:33 AM on 01.21.09
	->> Nice work Chuck and George. Sweet photograph... It ran page one, full page vertical in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The power of the still image lives on.

Michael L. Palmieri, Photographer

Barnegat | NJ | USA | Posted: 11:54 AM on 01.21.09

->> From George Bridges, "I am happy to say that MCT's first image of Obama with his hand in the air posted to clients at 12:14 p.m., about 8 minutes after it happened."

Eight minutes! How amazing is technology today. I know we all know this already, but just think what it took to get images over the wire just 10 years ago, let alone for the inaugurations of Kennedy or Eisenhower!

Amazing photo, btw.

Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer

	Columbia \| MO \| USA \| Posted: 2:41 PM on 01.21.09
	->> Something looks... different... Design? The News Journal, published in Wilmington, DE USA http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=DE_NJ&ref_pge=gal&b_...

Kevin Leas, Photographer, Assistant

	Rochester \| NY \| USA \| Posted: 2:49 PM on 01.21.09
	->> ^^That's a great looking cover...right until the car ad in the corner. Really, that completely kills the entire page for me.

Ryan Brennecke, Photographer

	Yuma \| AZ \| USA \| Posted: 3:23 PM on 01.21.09
	->> It was the main art for our A1 today! Nice work Chuck!

Jeremy Enlow, Photographer

	Fort Worth \| TX \| USA \| Posted: 3:29 PM on 01.21.09
	->> That is an awesome photo!! Too bad some readers didn't get to see the complete image. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram ran it on 1A almost full bleed so they made it vertical and by doing that they lost the two girls and the capital. Those two elements really emphasis a wonderful sense of place and emotion.

John Petrovic, Photographer

	Olathe \| KS \| \| Posted: 3:31 PM on 01.21.09
	->> I think what Patrick might mean is that they added sky to the photo...another photographer and I were talking about that exact thing just a few minutes aqo...when shooting a photo-illustration I think you can get away with adding sky and what not but in a news photo even if you put photo-illustration I think its deceiving.

John Petrovic, Photographer

	Olathe \| KS \| \| Posted: 3:36 PM on 01.21.09
	->> After I posted my previous comment I see what Jeremy is saying...I am trying to find the full image if what we see in the horizontal is not it. Most papers cropped it above the capital building.

John Petrovic, Photographer

	Olathe \| KS \| \| Posted: 3:46 PM on 01.21.09
	->> After looking around I found that on http://www.mctdirect.com/index.php it shows the photo only as a horizontal so it makes me believe that the vertical in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and others might have "manipulated" it a little. What do others think.

Alan Rogers, Photographer

	Hickory \| NC \| USA \| Posted: 4:57 PM on 01.21.09
	->> Several papers in our company ran this photo full-bleed on A1, with great results. http://ns.themeganet.com/NewsSynergy/NewsCentral/Images/Wednesday/bhc012109... http://ns.themeganet.com/NewsSynergy/NewsCentral/Images/Wednesday/drb012109... http://ns.themeganet.com/NewsSynergy/NewsCentral/Images/Wednesday/de%200121...

Jeremy Enlow, Photographer

	Fort Worth \| TX \| USA \| Posted: 4:57 PM on 01.21.09
	->> John I don't think the Fort Worth Star-Telegram manipulated the photo. It was just severely cropped in their paper today. McClatchy-Tribune Photo Service could have sent this cropped vertical version out as well as the full frame horizontal. On David Harpe's post up top his link has a couple other papers that ran the image as a tight crop vertical.

John Petrovic, Photographer

	Olathe \| KS \| \| Posted: 5:26 PM on 01.21.09
	->> Yeah I can see that Jeremy...I was just looking at how other papers used it and most of their were horizontal...i was pretty cool to see all the front pages.

Mitchell Brown, Photographer

	Grimsby \| Ont \| Canada \| Posted: 5:33 PM on 01.21.09
	->> Used in Hamilton Ontario Canada, cropped, fullbleed A1.....with no credit

Darren Whitley, Photographer

	Maryville \| MO \| USA \| Posted: 6:09 PM on 01.21.09
	->> A1 St. Joseph News-Press with appropriate credit.

Ryan Miller, Student/Intern, Photographer

	Corning \| NY \| USA \| Posted: 6:39 PM on 01.21.09
	->> Wow.

Simon Wheeler, Photo Editor, Photographer

	Ithaca \| NY \| USA \| Posted: 7:48 PM on 01.21.09
	->> Horizontal across the top of 1A in Ithaca NY. The page designer held out for it over more conventional stuff. Thanks.

Jeremy Harmon, Photo Editor, Photographer

	Salt Lake City \| UT \| USA \| Posted: 7:52 PM on 01.21.09
	->> The Delaware one is pretty alarming if you ask me. Wow. Extra clouds and everything.

Kent Nishimura, Student/Intern

	Honolulu \| HI \| USA \| Posted: 9:20 PM on 01.21.09
	->> It really is a great photo i only wish MCT Campus had it earlier so that my schools paper could;ve run it. It would;ve been SWEET!

Ceasar Maragni, Photographer

	Marion \| IL \| USA \| Posted: 10:51 PM on 01.21.09
	->> Like I always tell groups when I lecture or when curious amateurs ask me, "Why do you use a wide-angle so much?", because you put the viewer there! Just like Chuck Kennedy did with this nice swearing-in photo. It was such a breath of fresh air from all the long glass images of same! Congrats Chuck!

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