The whole bit about she was training an afghan photographer when it happened?
They’d be firing off the shutter like mad or just holding the release down for multiple shots.
But the photo taken by the Afghan (2nd pic down) appears to show someone; presumably the 4th Afghan (?) with a video camera, rather than a stills camera – so it made me wonder if they all had video cameras or ‘normal’ cameras?
The article calls her a ‘photographer’ and a ‘camerawoman’, so to me it is not wholly clear.
From what I have seen, if you were trying to capture an explosion it would be done using some kind of high speed camera – rather than a still camera. Obviously, they weren’t trying to capture the moment of an explosion here (it was an unfortunate accident) but nevertheless that it what 2 different people have managed to achieve in this situation, completely independently using 2 separate pieces of equipment….
Even ‘holding the shutter down for multiple shots’ would only get you to perhaps 10 frames/sec – whereas a video camera could be recording at 30 or 60fps.
How fast would that flame front have propagated from the explosion? Bloody quickly (speed of sound?), yet they have captured it at almost exactly the same time…..
The images look more like the sort of still you would get from a HD video, rather than taken from a high quality camera.
That’s how I see it anyway. The chances of two people capturing almost exactly the same point of an unpredicted explosive event seems pretty small to me.
It seems more likely to me that they were using video equipment rather than camera equipment, hence why I was pondering the point.
It might seem trivial, or a pointless question…..but in my head there is quite a difference between ‘woman photographs the moment of her death’ and ‘woman’s video camera is recording at the point she died’.
From a journalistic/reporting/story point of view – the ‘photograph’ is a stronger story than the ‘video’ one…..
Anyway – sorry to have de-railed the thread. Just trying to read between the lines and perhaps think more about the headline than just taking it as read……You can blame my history teacher for that.