Dress like the hockey players do, and be sure to wear a helmet of some kind.
Is it another protest against America? I heard they recently torched our embassy. What else is new?
Do you think a P&S would be ideal for this situation?
But whatever photos you take, be extremely careful about releasing the images in public because that might easily put the protesters and bystanders in serious trouble with authority.
Kosovo just plead their independecy from Serbia a week or so ago. The Serbs are not quite happy about that. Of cource they turned to worldprügelknabe #1 and torched an US embassy.
Kind regards
On my last protest, I carried the biggest camera I could:
a Hasselblad 501CM with a 180 telephoto lens.
Got me some nice shots.
I wish I brought a gas mask before hand.
Oh and a good helmet wouldn't be a dead weight.
My recurring nightmare is the police busting my camera and me fighting back with a monopod...
Maybe, I used to shoot with an SLR but I was always in the thick of the student demonstrations, which were virtually all anti Maggie Thatcher, the then UK Education Minister, well before she became world renowned as the British Prime Minister.
You need to shoot with what you are most comfortable using, I only had one camera then so it had to be the SLR.
Ian
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That said I was in a riot with my camera after a Hockey game and even though I got hit with some incidental pepper spray, hit my camera as I was taking a shot, I wasn't bothered by the police when they formed the line and moved in on the rioters.
Interesting observation. Probably a majority of those hockey fans were drunk - which likely made the situation more dangerous than photographing at a m/l "standard" political protest!
Where on earth did you get that idea? Hockey riots are almost always an indignant response to an unjust ref call or foul play by the opposing team, not violence fueled by drunken anarchy! *ducks to avoid flying Molson bottle*
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