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08/15/2005 02:46:34 AM · #1

Details: Pick a famous photograph from the past and try to reproduce the image. Your title should be the title of the famous image.
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Here is an example: BTW it was taken on August 14, 1945 (60 years old yesterday) and still making the news.

Good Read Below about the picture and how the photographer was able to capture the picture.

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One of the most famous photographs ever published by Life magazine was shot in Times Square on V-J Day. Alfred Eisenstaedt Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 - August 24, 1995) was a photographer and photojournalist.

He was born in Dirschau, West Prussia (now Tczew, Poland) and emigrated to the United States in 1935, where he remained until his death, living in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York.

Eisenstaedt worked as a photographer for Life magazine from 1936 to 1972. He is most renown for his candid photographs, which he made using a 2 1/4 by 2 1/4 inch Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera. His most famous photograph is of an American sailor kissing a young woman on V-J Day in Times Square in 1945.
..... was in the square taking candids when he spotted a sailor "running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight," he later explained. "Whether she was a grandmother, stout, thin, old, didn't make any difference. I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder...Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse." Eisenstadt was very gratified and pleased with this enduring image, saying, "People tell me that when I am in heaven they will remember this picture."

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ergo

08/15/2005 02:49:34 AM · #2

I like this idea...

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

08/15/2005 02:51:32 AM · #3

Ah, yes, I have definitely seen that photo!
Sounds like a cool idea. Could be really challenging. Like a tribute kinda thing.
...or like being in a band and doing a cover song or a remake :-)

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

08/15/2005 02:56:26 AM · #4

Too bad my Sailor suit don't fit me no more! LOL

I like the idea! It's got my vote!

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

08/15/2005 02:59:37 AM · #5

Originally posted by kpriest:

Too bad my Sailor suit don't fit me no more! LOL

I like the idea! It's got my vote!

Oh my God! what a scary thought of even trying to get into my old dress blues ...sheesh....(as I shudder in terror!!!)

...thanks Ken :-/

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

08/15/2005 03:01:21 AM · #6

In an interesting twist, the reason it's in the news is they've just put up a statue based on it.

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

08/15/2005 03:04:41 AM · #7

Originally posted by GeneralE:

In an interesting twist, the reason it's in the news is they've just put up a statue based on it.

Cool, I didn't see that. Where is it located?

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

08/15/2005 03:07:12 AM · #8

Originally posted by taterbug:

Originally posted by GeneralE:
In an interesting twist, the reason it's in the news is they've just put up a statue based on it.

Cool, I didn't see that. Where is it located?

I thought it was in Times Square, near where the event took place. I could be wrong though, I think I just heard something on the radio and I wasn't paying complete attention.

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

08/15/2005 03:18:05 AM · #9

Interesting. Seems like it would make for a good statue.

David.C

08/15/2005 03:18:09 AM · #10

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by taterbug:

Originally posted by GeneralE:
In an interesting twist, the reason it's in the news is they've just put up a statue based on it.

Cool, I didn't see that. Where is it located?

I thought it was in Times Square, near where the event took place. I could be wrong though, I think I just heard something on the radio and I wasn't paying complete attention.

Here you go.

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

08/15/2005 03:18:42 AM · #11

...and Here

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Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

08/15/2005 03:25:23 AM · #12

My rain challenge entry was going to be a reproduction of "singing in the rain". I made up my mind to go for it and don't enter unless I was able to get the shot. I was not able to get the shot, rain did not cooperate with me at the right time of day. Here was what I was going to try to reproduce in the rain challenge.

CorySmith

08/15/2005 03:28:57 AM · #13

Originally posted by SDW65:

...and Here

weird i read that and then it came on the news at 3:30 in the morning :-/

roadrunner

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08/15/2005 03:37:53 AM · #14

OH YES PLS.... !!!! this sounds like a lot of fun....

Pug-H

Pentax K10D

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08/15/2005 03:46:01 AM · #15

must be time to link this again...

jellyoooo

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08/15/2005 03:46:17 AM · #16

I dont think so.. dont forget that what you have showed as "Famous"
is not famous in my homeland..

its international thing here...

i live in Israel now.. and what am i suppose to shoot.. a famouse bus that blow up?

wewillexplore

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08/15/2005 03:58:09 AM · #17

Most famous sports photo ever:

Pug-H

Pentax K10D

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08/15/2005 04:06:10 AM · #18

never seen that one before, mavrick