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Re: [OM] Missed photo-op of the week...

Subject: Re: [OM] Missed photo-op of the week...
From: svtbrad@xxxxxxxxxx (Bradley Mabb)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 22:34:56 -0800
>
>Great photojournalism of accident scenes and such does not require, or even
>suggest, showing the victim in an identifiable way. 
>
>As Brad mentioned, you can get great, expressive, compelling, whatever
>you're after shots of accident scenes without showing the victim at all.
>What's more interesting, anyway - a face covered in blood, or a team of
>rescuers trying to gain access to an overturned truck with the cab crushed
>inward?
    :) Jay gets it :)


>ObOM: I'd like to get some good photographs of accident scenes, and the best
>way to do so unintrusively at night is available light - of which not a lot
>is sometimes available. If I go to some kind of superfast film and nice fast
>lenses (100/2 or so), am I gonna be able to take pictures that I can show
>people later, or will the grain or the camera shake or the wide variations
>in exposure from where the medics are pointing their flashlights and the
>rest of the scene conspire against me? Will I need to go out and get an OM-4
>to have any chance of getting reliable meter readings?


   There was an article awhile back I read about a photographer who worked
 exclusively photographing firemen working fires (mostly night scenes). I
 honestly don't know if I have the article or not. But if I do, I'll send
 it to you.
                                               Happy Thanksgiving,
                                                    Brad

                   


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