The Most Difficult Shot.
What is the most difficult shot or take you have ever had to get? Was it difficult because of the personal implications or the content?
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Permalink Reply by Tom Khazoyan on -
A couple come to mind for me:
- filming a documentary in refugee camps outside Southern Sudan. I was deeply moved by their tragic stories, but even more so by their joyful response in worship in the midst of their suffering.
- filming the scenes in our film, The Enemy God, where the shamans call their spirits. We prayed a lot about how to portray those scenes and the spirit world of the Yanomamö. Interestingly, the former shamans who were advising us were less fearful. They believe that Christ's power is sufficient to protect. It was more difficult for them to see and remember the death and bondage their people have been under.
-Tom
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Permalink Reply by Jon Anderhub on -
Okay I'm sure people have had to hang off of cliffs or out of trees, but here's one for the books.
Every year, in February, here in the wild west of Wyoming the Western Stock Growers Association meet at hotel here in Casper.
Part of every year's meeting is an auction of prime breeding cattle.
You might think that this would take place in a barn somewhere, but no.
At one time the cattle, including 2500 pound angry bulls, would be paraded through the ball rooms of the hotel.
Well times change and so do health codes, so rather than parade the bulls through the hotel it was decided that the bulls would be paraded in front of a video camera in the parking lot and the bulls would be shown on a large screen in the hotel.
Okay so what's the big deal right?
Well the auction runs from approximately 1:00 p.m. till 7:00 or 8:00 at night, in February, in Wyoming.
The typical temprauture is a high of about 20 and a low usually below zero.
The lighting on these, not happy, 2500 pound creatures has to be perfect because thousands of dollars are riding on these critters.
The background that they are shot against can neither be distracting nor can it highlight these beasts!
And I am surrounded by hundreds of them.
Ever been in a parking lot surrounded by a hundred or so bulls (horns and everything) in sub freezing weather, trying to get the perfect shot 100 or so times?
Did I mention that the bulls were not happy to be there either?
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