Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Peter. The first group, Faces of Iraq, are scans of prints. They were printed in 1991 in my darkroom so it's no telling what I did to them at the time! Tina On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote: > These are beautiful and moving images. As a woman I think that somehow > you must > have access to a side of people that they would not show to men so > readily. Your > skills as a photographer serve you - and them wonderfully. > > Of the second group: it is odd but the sharpness isn't there to the same > extent > as in the first set. Is this the scanning or the spotting. They are > nonetheles > images that anyone on the LUG would be proud of. > > Peter > > On 03/09/2014 16:05, Tina Manley wrote: > > PESO: > > > > I was cleaning out my file cabinets and found a whole drawer of pages of > > negatives from Jordan, 1991, that I have never scanned. I went to Iraq > > after the first Gulf War to photograph how the sanctions were affecting > > children. That story is here: > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/faces_of_iraq > > > > Those photos have been used quite a bit, but I was also in Amman, Jordan, > > for two weeks waiting to get my Iraqi visa. I visited the Palestinian > > refugee camps and Bedouin families in the desert. I've just started to > > scan those negatives. The color slides have been used but not the B&W's. > > > > Here are a few portraits, spotted with the new technique I just learned: > > > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/157237670 and the next 4. > > > > I'll be scanning for a long time! > > > > C&C greatly appreciated. > > > > Tina > > > > -- > > =========================================================== > Dr Peter Dzwig > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com