A Photo of James Comey Takes the Internet by Storm
James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times
Read the story...nice shot Mr. Mills!
Brilliant. In an earlier incarnation, I spent many working hours — as a broadcast reporter, not a photographer — in House and Senate hearing rooms, including the better part of a lifetime (half a lifetime ago) covering the Senate Watergate committee, to which the Comey hearing has frequently been compared. Those venues are an almost unbelievable challenge for video and still shooters who want to produce images that will stand out from the pack. You really need to have your brain in gear to make this kind of picture. This guy did.
However, I'm not particularly enamored by the failure to fix wide-angle distortion. I understand that Mills was transmitting JPEGs to the
Times, but they could still have been corrected if it wasn't for the paper's overly-rigid (in my opinion) restrictions on image "manipulation." (The
Times editors even refuse to correct keystoning in architectural shots.)