Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Philip, Went looking at the website and that confetti shot really is world class photography, IMO. Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 21-jul-07, om 03:06 heeft Philip Forrest het volgende geschreven: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >