2024-07-15 10:14:32
On Sunday morning the 14th (local time the afternoon of the 13th), four months before the US presidential election in November, a shooting incident occurred targeting former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate.
The incident occurred less than 10 minutes after he took the stage for a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Fortunately, Trump showed in a video posted on social media that his life was not in danger and he had returned to a safe place. The shooter who fired the gun from a building near the rally site was killed at the scene by police and SWAT.
What’s amazing is that American photojournalists captured the moment of the shooting almost perfectly.
Based on my experience as a working photojournalist covering domestic political events, these situations are so sudden that it is very difficult to capture them with photos rather than video.
There is already analysis that the photo of former President Trump clenching his fist against the backdrop of the American flag immediately after the attack will be recorded as the most pivotal moment of this presidential election campaign.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a Republican, has already shared this photo on his Twitter account, and his supporters have begun spreading it around.
After carefully examining the metadata of the photos brought into the country and the bylines of the photographers who were present, I think I understand how this situation was possible.
First of all, there is a distance between the photographers taking the pictures and the podium. But it is not too far. So the photographers were preparing to close up Trump’s face with their telephoto lenses.
It’s a good lens to take a picture of Trump’s face, who usually speaks harshly. The picture of Trump with his fist clenched was taken by AP reporter Evan Vucci. Born in 1977, he is a veteran photographer who has been working for AP since 2003. AP reporter Evan Vucci attached a 400mm telephoto lens to Sony’s Alpha 1 mirrorless camera. He also attached a teleconverter to make the lens function 1.4 times longer. It’s a setting that gives the same effect as the 600mm lens that photographers in Korea use to shoot professional baseball games.
While he was wearing a camera with a telephoto lens on his right shoulder, he was watching the scene with a Sony Alpha 9 camera and a 24-70 lens on his left shoulder. Since the setting allows for relatively close-up shots, he was able to capture the scene where the security guards wrapped their bodies around Trump, who had collapsed on the podium, and then he was able to capture a picture of Trump coming down from the podium with his fist clenched.
The Associated Press had one more reporter on the scene besides Evan Vucci. Reporter Gene J. Puskar also had a Sony Alpha 1 mirrorless camera, a 400mm telephoto lens, and a 1.4x teleconverter. Vucci shot from close up on the stage, while Puskar shot from a distance.
There were also photographers on the scene, Rebecca DROKE of AFP, Bredan McDemid of Reuters, and Anna Moneymaker of Getty Images. Anna Moneymaker of Getty Images approached the podium immediately after the gunshots were fired and captured Trump’s face, head down, bleeding, between the feet of his security guards. It was a big close-up. There may have been other reporters, but they are mostly from major news agencies around the world. You can see that there weren’t as many people on the scene as you might think.
Among the newspaper reporters on the scene was New York Times reporter Doug Mills, who appeared to be filming from just below Trump’s podium. His photo shows the bullet marks that grazed Trump’s right ear.
Most photos taken with a telephoto lens show the audience sitting on the makeshift steps behind Trump in the background, but Doug Mill’s photo has a blue sky in the background. You can see that he took the photo of Trump from below, under the podium. Born in 1960, Doug Mill has been covering the White House since the Ronald Reagan administration in 1983 and has also covered the South Korea-US summit, so he is quite famous not only among the White House staff but also among Korean photojournalists. He recently posted photos of President Biden’s administration and candidate Trump’s campaign on his Twitter and Instagram.
I think it is the practice of the American political scene to plan the podium and route in advance so that photographers can capture the scene well, and the reason that reporters who have been watching the scene for a long time can record the moment. That does not mean that terrorism was induced. Please do not misunderstand. . As a photographer, I am very curious about what kind of influence these photos, which shook the emotions of supporters, will have on this year’s American election.
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