Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This photo is the better one of two that I was able to snap with the Leica while working with my issued Nikon digital. We weren't out at this site to document it for very long and the people who were managing it were very wary of my being there with a camera (or two) regardless of the fact that my job was to do these photos as a historic record for the military. I captured this one "on the fly" with the lens at f/16 set to hyperfocal. Mistakenly, I had forgotten that the roll in the camera was Delta 3200 and I exposed this for Pan F 50 iso film. The 6 stop pull was what gave it the grain. I wish I had been there longer with proper film, but that day we were on convoy for 16 hours visiting different engineering sites and documenting progress. I DO however, have a lot of other photos from Iraq. A few can be seen here: http://www.americanphotojournalist.com/member.php?user=NMCB4PH2 Feel free to contact me offlist to other links where most of the photography is located. That account is password protected. Thanks all, Philip On Friday 20 July 2007 19:27, EPL wrote: > Philip Forrest wrote: > > I took this photo in December, 2004 of a mass grave that my unit dug to > > bury the bodies of several thousand Iraqis who were classified as > > collateral casualties. This was the "nicest" photo of death that I took > > out there. > > > > http://tinyurl.com/33mvgf > > > > Leica M2, Kobalux 28 > > I would like to see more of this series, if you are able to share this with > us. > > This reminds me of the photos of My Lai taken by Ronald Haeberle. > Classified as collateral, indeed... > > Emanuel Lowi > Montreal > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information