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Thank you for posting the link. I was in high school when in 64 and very aware of what was going on. I started the university in 67 and started working as a photo journalist in 1968 and wo try Jed my way through college. I photographed many student anti war protests through my college days, 1967-71.
As to how to photograph the bar, if you have a tripod I’d try two things. I’d use something like a 20 or 24mm and crop the image to remove much of the ceiling which would create a more panoramic shot. I’d do it from a tripod stopping the lens down for increased depth of field.
If you’re shooting digital I’d use the tripod a level the camera then make a series of images that overlap about 40% and shoot a series to create a multi image panorama. It’s important to overlap about 40% and make the camera level in all axis. I’d then stitch them together in Photoshop or Lightroom and if you don’t have either just make prints and create a mosaic.
I’m not certain what camera you’re using but some like the Fuji X series will create 180 degree panoramas.
I have thousands of images of protests but have these on my phone at the moment and I’m out of state for the week. These were shot in that period of 68-71 and were pretty representative of what was happening on college campuses.
The student with his arm up being usher away was a Brazilian student who was arrested. The Nixon administration was concerned about Peter Kami starting a communist movement in universities and eventually had him deported back to Brazil. He was considered an agitator and communist and was tagged with the name Peter Commie.
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Thanks for your feedback, x-ray, and photos of the demonstrations. The internet is a wonderful thing and if we have to believe the author of this piece, Peter Kami jumped bail and ended up in Europe: Kami, Peter Howard - Volopedia Unfortunately, security guards are allergic to tripods and so that's not going to happen. Instead, I'll bring a fast wide lens for the terrace and a longer lens for the vistas. Cheers, OtL
Freakscene
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Thanks for the article. The only thing in it I can’t confirm is his charitable work in Britain. Other than that it’s 100% correct.
I’m in Las Vegas for the week headed to some ghost towns to make photos. I’m not into gambling do not planning on losing my retirement 😊 When I get back I’ll pull some of the negs from those demonstrations and post them. I was chief photographer of the university paper at that time and have tons of images. Good article.
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He was a pretty intense guy but Peter had charisma and was very popular with the “radical” girls so dressing right was important.
Photography almost got me drafted. When the numbers for the first draft lottery were pulled my number came up 76. Lucky me😵💫. I had been on an assignment outdoors and walked into a hole in a field while unloading a Hasselblad back. My right foot went down in it causing a severe tendon and joint injury that I suffer from even to this day. I went to an ortho doc and X-rays revealed damage that at the time couldn’t be repaired.
The pain was so great I had to drop out of school for a quarter and as soon as I did I got my draft notice. A snowy cold day, January 8th 1970 is when I reported. I took my X-rays and went through all the tests and at the end of the day was my physical. I was standing in a line in front of a Dr who was reviewing my X-rays and he never looked up at me but the words he spoke were the most important ever spoken to me. “Son, you can never join or be drafted, you’re 1-Y”. I was eventually reclassified 4-F due to the injury. I was the only one in the group if 100 that didn’t get drafted. In the group were 7 that couldn’t read or write their own names and I’m sure they wound up on the front line.
Whe I get back in town I’ll scan some of the other demonstrations and the Billy Graham shots with President Nixon and post them.
Thanks!
Yokosuka Mike
Abstract Clarity
Hotel New Grand Yokohama
A Hotel with an Interesting history
A Hotel with an Interesting history
Fujifilm X-H1, Fujinon XF 33mm f1.4 lens
Astia film simulation
Yokohama, Japan - April 2023
Image is lower resolution than original
Astia film simulation
Yokohama, Japan - April 2023
Image is lower resolution than original
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Veteran
I have to give a little background on this shot.
I shot this with an M3 Leica and 21mm f3.4 Super Angulon with TX film. Not todays TX (garbage) but original TX ( the great stuff ).
I was facing the opposite direction of the guy in the bushes and shooting in deep shade. A friend tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around and spied the person in the bushes surrounded by police. Things were happening quickly and I raised my camera with the 21 finder to my eye and fired a shot and fired two or three more as quickly as I could without focusing or readjusting for a bright sunlight exposure. The person in the bushes was a little over exposed but the sunny area was 3 stops over.
This neg is a nightmare to print! The 21 showed more than I wanted and I’ve cropped this one about 50% but have printed wider versions too. When I get back home I’ll pull the neg and scan it so you can see what the entire image looked like.
This image has earned more money for me than any other image I’ve taken. It was picked up by several hundred news papers across the US that day and Esquire Magazine ran it several times including once full page. That was pretty cool for a 21 year old kid starting out and it was a true grab shot. Funny but I still sell it from time to time.
Funny but some photographers say a picture is worth a thousand words but we used to say it’s worth $1,000 plus expenses. Sometimes even more.
The second shot here was an anti war demonstration before Richard Nixon came to the campus. I’ll post some of those and demonstrations next week.
I shot this with an M3 Leica and 21mm f3.4 Super Angulon with TX film. Not todays TX (garbage) but original TX ( the great stuff ).
I was facing the opposite direction of the guy in the bushes and shooting in deep shade. A friend tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around and spied the person in the bushes surrounded by police. Things were happening quickly and I raised my camera with the 21 finder to my eye and fired a shot and fired two or three more as quickly as I could without focusing or readjusting for a bright sunlight exposure. The person in the bushes was a little over exposed but the sunny area was 3 stops over.
This neg is a nightmare to print! The 21 showed more than I wanted and I’ve cropped this one about 50% but have printed wider versions too. When I get back home I’ll pull the neg and scan it so you can see what the entire image looked like.
This image has earned more money for me than any other image I’ve taken. It was picked up by several hundred news papers across the US that day and Esquire Magazine ran it several times including once full page. That was pretty cool for a 21 year old kid starting out and it was a true grab shot. Funny but I still sell it from time to time.
Funny but some photographers say a picture is worth a thousand words but we used to say it’s worth $1,000 plus expenses. Sometimes even more.
The second shot here was an anti war demonstration before Richard Nixon came to the campus. I’ll post some of those and demonstrations next week.
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Out to Lunch
Ventor
Waking up in a Vienna hotel room.
Out to Lunch
Ventor
The view from my Budapest hotel room.
Darthfeeble
But you can call me Steve
Goulding's RV Resort, across the street from Monument Valley. The big thing on the left is us.
Vince Lupo
Whatever
Leaving one of the many hotels I've stayed in on my way back and forth to New Mexico. This one's in Memphis.
Leaving Memphis by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
The casita in which I stayed when I was in the Artist in Residence program in Carrizozo, NM last year.
My Casita by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
The Swissotel in Dresden.
Dresden4 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Leaving Memphis by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
The casita in which I stayed when I was in the Artist in Residence program in Carrizozo, NM last year.
My Casita by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
The Swissotel in Dresden.
Dresden4 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
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If anyone ever runs out of hotel options, there is always Hotel Happy.
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