The cardinal rule of photographing graduation ceremonies — at least, if you’re a photojournalist and not an event photographer or a parent — is to arrive early. Or late.
I prefer arriving early, when the graduates are a little antsy.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. York Technical Institute Computer Systems Specialist program graduates Tanner Ferro, right, and George Wilson, left, chat with Mark Groff, Jr., center, as he uses his phone to send a text while waiting in a stairwell to enter the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center auditorium for the winter graduation ceremony on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012.
(I’m also a fan of taped arrows on walls.)
Next time, maybe I’ll try arriving late.
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