Last night around 80 hoosiers gathered at the IndyFringe Theater (719 East St. Clair Street, Indianapolis, IN) to listen to two very qualified teams debate whether healthcare was a right or privilege. For more details about the debate visit the debate page on Smaller Indiana. I had the privilege of photographing this debate using both a Nikon D70 DSLR (18-35mm and 80-200mm lenses) and a Canonet QL17 rangefinder (with Fuji Neopan 1600). I still have to finish shooting the roll to develop the film, but in the meantime here are the photos from the DSLR.
Digital Workflow Details:
Camera: Nikon D70 with 18-35mm and 80-200mm AF Nikkor Lenses
ISO: 1600 (Did not want to use flash) in Raw+ JPEG Mode
Image Logging and Processing: Adobe Lightroom
Adjustments: Noise Reduction applied to both Color and Luminance until desired results achieved
Output: Converted to JPEGs using Lightroom export feature at 50% quality to reduce size
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Tags: Debate, Event Photography, Fuji Neopan 1600, Healthcare Debate, High ISO, Hoosiers, Indiana, Noise Reduction, Noisy, Stage Photography
It’s funny we hear Republicans say that they do not want “faceless bureaucrats” making medical decisions but they have no problem with “private sector” “faceless bureaucrats” daily declining medical coverage and financially ruining good hard working people (honestly where can they go with a pre-condition). And who says that the “private sector” is always right, do we forget failures like Long-Term Capital, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Of course the federal government will destroy heathcare by getting involved, Oh but wait, Medicare and Medicaid and our military men and women and the Senate and Congress get the best heathcare in the world, and oh, that’s right, its run by our federal government. I can understand why some may think that the federal government will fail, if you look at the past eight years as a current history, with failures like the financial meltdown and Katrina but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.
How does shouting down to stop the conversation of the healthcare debate at town hall meetings, endears them to anyone. Especially when the organizations that are telling them where to go and what to do and say are Republicans political operatives, not real grassroots. How does shouting someone down or chasing them out like a “lynch mob” advanced the debate, it does not. So I think the American people will see through all of this and know, like the teabagger, the birthers, these lynch mobs types AKA “screamers” are just the same, people who have to resort to these tactics because they have no leadership to articulate what they real want. It’s easy to pickup a bus load of people who hate, and that’s all I been seeing, they hate and can’t debate. Too bad.
Thanks for your comments Paul. The teams that debated were extremely civil and other than an isolated heated exchange the evening was an enlightening experience for everyone. What is funny though that some want to paint this as a liberal vs conservative issue, however there are conservatives that are for healthcare reform and some alternative to the current system.