Posted on Aug 20, 2016
Who are your favorite photographers including those who post on RallyPoint?
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There are many truly great photographers alive today as well as those who have passed on. Additionally there are many fine photographers who are RallyPoint members such as CPT Jack Durish, SPC Margaret Higgens, SGT Ben Steen and PV2 Lisa Wilcox
Who are your favorite photographers?
Feel free to post pictures and you can nominate yourself :-)
Pictures I took: my youth on a camping trip 1973; Bamberg, Germany 1981; infantry soldier pleasing a restaurant owner at Costa Brava, Spain 1982, wildflecken 1983
Who are your favorite photographers?
Feel free to post pictures and you can nominate yourself :-)
Pictures I took: my youth on a camping trip 1973; Bamberg, Germany 1981; infantry soldier pleasing a restaurant owner at Costa Brava, Spain 1982, wildflecken 1983
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I grew up in two places: On a sailboat and in a darkroom. Both had impacts that persisted throughout life. One of the countless lessons I learned was that fine photographs begin with a properly focused image. All other issues of composition, exposure, color balance, contrast, etc could be "fixed" in the darkroom, now the computer. That's were the real art takes place. During my career in advertising and public relations, I was privileged to work with some of the very best. However, there is one who I can not only recommend but also count as a good friend, Mark Jordan. When he produced this photo for my website, other photographers began calling and asking how he did it. It looks more like a painting than a photograph and it captures the image I wanted, that of a storyteller. It is the only photograph of myself that I have willingly shared
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LTC Stephen F.
Thanks for sharing a great photograph CPT Jack Durish. It reminds me of a oil painting by one of the masters.
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SPC Margaret Higgins
FABULOUS PHOTOGRAPH, CAPTAIN CPT Jack Durish! The way you were able to make it so much like a painting, is uncanny; to me.
-With All of My Best Wishes for You, Sir- Margaret
-With All of My Best Wishes for You, Sir- Margaret
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Capt Seid Waddell
CPT Jack Durish, that photograph is truly a work of art.
Thank you for posting it!
Thank you for posting it!
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Napalm is very photogenic - at a distance. This is one of my favorite shots from my service years.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thanks for sharing a mixture of God's beautiful tapestry at sunset or sunrise and pictures of man-made napalm Capt Seid Waddell
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My favorite photographers are Mathew Brady from the civil war era. After that it is too hard for me to single out a greatest photographer and their are so many iconic images by photographers from the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi to police chief shooting the VC suspect in the head in Saigon to the image of the first sergeant of A Company, 101st Airborne Division, guides a medevac helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties suffered during a five-day patrol near Hue, April 1968.
Honorable mention to some great photographers on RallyPoint: CPT Jack Durish SPC Margaret Higgins SGT Ben Keen and PV2 (Join to see)
Honorable mention to some great photographers on RallyPoint: CPT Jack Durish SPC Margaret Higgins SGT Ben Keen and PV2 (Join to see)
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CPT Jack Durish
Photographic journalism is among the highest forms of the art. Sadly, it's lost its impact. Seeing is no longer believing. Take, for example, the photo of the execution in the streets of Saigon (that you shared) or the other infamous of a naked young girl burned by napalm, running along a road in Vietnam. Both were used as false narratives by journalists to damn America's fight to help the Vietnamese ward off communism. And, with Photoshop, images can be warped into false narratives without the need of a caption (for example, the crowds Photoshopped into scenes of Hillary's rallies to make it appear that she's "popular"). Still, I'll always be inspired by combat photography (a form of photo journalism). Scenes of photographers plying their trade while under fire always took my breath away.
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LTC Stephen F.
CPT Jack Durish - I concur with your assessment about photoshopping pictures and propaganda. I realize the police chief executing the VC captive in Saigon was used by the antiwar movement. I thought it was a great picture.
History is by far my favorite pastime. Pictures can enhance a historical book. I prefer primary sources or well documented secondary sources.
Here is a picture a friend shared yesterday from the Spanich Civil War. 1936-08-18, "Fr. Martin Martinez Pascual left a lasting testament to the grace of martyrdom when he smiled for a photo just moments before being shot."
History is by far my favorite pastime. Pictures can enhance a historical book. I prefer primary sources or well documented secondary sources.
Here is a picture a friend shared yesterday from the Spanich Civil War. 1936-08-18, "Fr. Martin Martinez Pascual left a lasting testament to the grace of martyrdom when he smiled for a photo just moments before being shot."
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CPT Jack Durish
LTC Stephen F. - Propaganda is a perversion of photo journalism. And I still have some of it to give away http://jackdurish.com/jacks-blog/nazi
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