Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe, Thank you very much for your praise! Philip On Sunday 22 July 2007 08:27, Philippe Orlent wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information