Iwo Jima flag-raising photographer dies

[airfrogusmc]

Exactly well 1/400 at f 11 is fast with a reasonable depth of field for 4X5. Allot of expusure I would imagine was experience. If you didn't hoot wit ha fast shutter speed you wouldn't catch the action.

When your dealing with 4X5 & 8X10 negs grain isn't much of an issue.

 

[Hondo]

My Dad just turned 17 while in the Navy on Iwo Jima and finally met Joe in 1961 in San Francisco, he was a real likeable guy, cameras in those days took talent, steady hand, an artist in my book.
R.I.P. Joe.

 

[MrBern]

DAmn, thats a great shot of him!

 

[Robert Conway]

I think young Eugene Smith was also on Iwo Jima at some point. I know for certain that he was on Okinawa and was almost killed, when he was hit in the face by a large piece of scrapmetal.

Sad to see Mr. Rosenthal go off to the great darkroom in the sky, but what an exciting life!

RC

 

[MrBern]

Flag of our Fathers

Was at the movies tonite & caught the trailer for Flag of Our Fathers.
Looks fabulous.
And the actor playing JoeRosenthal...what a great resemblance.
Tho it does initiate in me a bit of melancholy, knowing this man has just passed away, it was really nice to see him depicted so faithfully on the big screen.

Cant wait til this film premieres.

 

[Lincsong]

I seen the ads on television for Flags of Our Fathers. I will go see it. I am just hoping that it doesn't white wash things.

 

[Katt in Hat]

White Wash What???

I seen the ads on television for Flags of Our Fathers. I will go see it. I am just hoping that it doesn't white wash things.

You seeing Monsters under the bed again?

An aside, I knew Barney Stein who caught the picture of Ralph Branca sitting on the dugout steps and crying because he had served up the home run pitch to Bobby Thompson which lost the 1951 playoff between the NY Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. I dated his daughter a couple times in early '50S. Barney worked for the NY Post and amassed quite a body of work. We were all Brooklynites... :arated:

 

[Lincsong]

What does Brooklyn have to do with anything?lol

 

[Katt in Hat]

The Stein picture won a Pulitzer Prize. A world renowned image.

Not as famed as the Rosenthal but known by all well rounded, cultured persons...

I seen the ads on television for Flags of Our Fathers. I will go see it. I am just hoping that it doesn't white wash things.

White wash what, pray tell?

What does Brooklyn have to do with anything?

Brooklyn has to do with EVERYTHING!!!
But you wouldn't know about that...Think Neil Sedaka, Barbra S. and a load of Nobel Laureates; and Nathan's Famous...

 

[MrBern]

1951 isnt WWII