oftheherd
Veteran
This is from the boston.com website. It is an airstrike in Libya. I wouldn't want to be standing around here:
I have to believe that was from a fixed camera. Unless that was a really long telephoto, I don't see how a photog could be standing. The overpressure should have knocked the person down and they couldn't get up in time for this photo. Otherwise, the photog got knocked down just after. Incredible timeing no matter.
newsgrunt
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I believe Tyler Hicks and John Moore are in the group so I wouldn't be too quick to mock this type of working methodology.
Fraser
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exactly..............
emraphoto
Veteran
Tyler Hicks, Moore and Addario are indeed present. these people are indeed VERY intrepid and at the top of their game. i would echo newsgrunt's comment.
dave lackey
Veteran
One wonders if street photography will evolve into something like this.
emraphoto
Veteran
another astute point. those folks in Libya are working in a serious batch of danger. hostile government forces, no security and a whole boatload full of ordinance being tossed around daily. it would be very easy to get dead and i'd be scared *!@*less every second of the day.
emraphoto
Veteran
add an aggressive exercise to gain air supremacy going on? geebuz
Nikkor AIS
Nikkor AIS
You know, you guys are judging these photojournalists from "one" photo op. Give me a break . ****. No one knows the circumstances under which these guys took the picture. You know, it might have been one of those situations where you are told by people with guns not to move and to stand in a certain place.
Those who are quick to judge should get their boots on the ground and show us how it's done. By that standard, I am more than willing to cut these PJs a little slack.
Those who are quick to judge should get their boots on the ground and show us how it's done. By that standard, I am more than willing to cut these PJs a little slack.
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Luna
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Wasn't a fixed camera. Just a 40 year-old war PJ doing his thing. Goran Tomasevic.
emraphoto
Veteran
mad props to Goran!
oftheherd
Veteran
Good on him. After looking at it again, I think he was farther away than I first thought since it appears the cars still have their glass. Still quite a good catch photographically.
robklurfield
eclipse
I'm sure Hicks and Addario can attest to how much more dangerous that theatre is than this one image might suggest. See yesterday's NY Times for an article about their ordeal.
dave lackey
Veteran
All I know is about war time photography is that I would not do it. God bless those that do.:angel:
Off side, there is another thread about the new movie coming in April.... The Ban Bang Club. Looks quite interesting in the trailer.
dave lackey
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All I know is about war time photography is that I would not do it. God bless those that do.:angel:
Off side, there is another thread about the new movie coming in April.... The Bang Bang Club. Looks quite interesting in the trailer.
GSNfan
Well-known
This just looks wrong to me. Was it always this way?
... And then they were captures and molested by Gaddafi people... Sad world that we live in, but funny as well.
Rogier
Rogier Willems
One bullet to kill 4 photographers....
This just looks wrong to me. Was it always this way?
akalai
Well-known
...funny, really? Because you are not.
...wow, and just when I thought it couldn't get any lamer.