joe_blow32 Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Taken this Easter w/ m4, tri-x and 35 or 50 mm leitz optics<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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xcapekey.com Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 wow....great photos! i particularly like the one of the girl facing the camera, hands folded....beautiful portrait...how fast a film were you using.... nice work...very dramatic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmo Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy_tok Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Wow. W/NW reaches a new high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johns1 Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Joe, What country or culture produced these terriffic images? Who are these hooded individuals? IMHO: Easter is a time of joy, especially in the Orthodox world. I'm puzzled by these dour expressions. Maybe a Good Friday posession and not an Easter Sunday celebration??? Great shots in B&W, a media which I find the hardest to master. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icuneko Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 #3's pale complexion is kind of haunting. Who and where are these people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_blow32 Posted May 17, 2005 Author Share Posted May 17, 2005 Thank you for the kind replies. These were shot in Valencia Spain this past Easter during their Semana Santa Celebrations which run for the entire week prior to Easter. Very interesting and moving street celebrations which take place in the streets every morning and evening. Diffrent Catholic Guilds have processions dressed in their medieval finest. All of it is with Tri x; I think all of it was pushed to 1600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Very, very nice series of photographs! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
del_gray Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Joe, I agree that these are powerful images. I can't help but feel a tension, though, that is brought out by Jack's comment above. The dramatic effect here gives the shots an almost frightening mood. In this country, at least, very few know the history and meanings of these hooded figures and are more apt to relate them to some kind of weird secret society doing creepy things (ala KKK). This kind of response is indeed not the intention of the event itself, so you get confusion like Jack's because Easter in our culture is a celebration with a very different tone than we feel when looking at these pictures. It's an interesting, intriguing dynamic and I'm not sure what to make of it. I think it might also be interesting to present these shots without the title and association with Easter, thought the tension as it stands is fascinating. The tension seems inherent to the nature of the costumes and the setting itself because I feel this same thing in practically every picture I see of this ceremony, although I must say your compositions and exposures heighten the tension and are the best ones I have seen. Just some thoughts - and certainly congratulations and well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric merrill Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 One of the best w/nw thread's I've had the pleasure of viewing. Thanks, Joe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy m. Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Great stuff. A bit scary to see the hoods though, at least for the unfamiliar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugene_scherba Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 #2, #5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugene_scherba Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 #3 is great too, but needs better postprocessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier_reichenbach Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Very, very good. Haunting and, yes, a bit frightening. Catholicism can have its moments sometimes. But I shudder to think of what we could have read from some members if the same kind of pictures concerned some Muslim ceremony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey Posted May 19, 2005 Share Posted May 19, 2005 Stunning. Scared the sith out of me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean_. Posted May 19, 2005 Share Posted May 19, 2005 5 is like out of a nightmare. Great photos, thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett_davis1 Posted May 20, 2005 Share Posted May 20, 2005 Stunning, especially No. 5. Although, being from Alabama, I too first thought of the KKK ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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