Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, I went to see it in Brussels on Saturday. He's God, that's how he drums up the mist and haze. Either that or he shoots into the light quite early in the morning. In many cases it's not mist or haze, but fires - his subjects don't usually have gas or electricity to cook by. Outside the large towns in Africa, and I assume elsewhere, it's quite normal in my experience for people to have a small fire going outside their home all the time for cooking and heating water. In Ethiopia this is often in a metal container thing which they can carry from place to place. This is why you see so many women bent double, crippling themselves carrying enormous bundles of firewood. In some areas there are also a lot of charcoal burners on the go permanently. Imo the skies are not dark enough to be red-filtered. I think he shoots without filtered and burns in in the darkroom. - --- Bob mailto:bob@web-options.com Wednesday, August 01, 2001, 5:19:37 PM, you wrote: > I just got back from visiting the Sebastião Salgado "Migrations" exhibit at > the ICP. It made me feel very very humble. I expected great but not soooo > great! If at all possible try to see it if you have not yet done so. > The thing I don't know is how he always manages to drum up some haze or mist > in the distance. > Brent Dorsett --- NYC