erin.e Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Not directed at you Trevor. Always the gentleman, you provided the answer to the code! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Sorry Erin. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dawn Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Hi Is this a generation gap problem? For as long as I have been lurking mostly here, I always knew DAH meant David Alan Harvey, e quinessential Leica M "God" who breaks tradition by using Velvia 50 and LOTS of flash with his cheap Vivitar...... Producing ground breaking work on e spanish diaspora with only Leica 28 f2.8, 35 f1.4, 50f1.4, all older Leica variants, no asph watsoever. Until 2005 that is :) Now he has gone digital as well.... Check out e latest article on him - he now shoots with a nikkor 20 f2.8 on a d70 body with nikon strobes (approximating a 28mm fov). And considering a d200... http://www.nikonnet.com/dyn/articles/article_detail/208.html Oh the gearhead! :) DAH is one of my greatest inspiration as a photog - I love his work whether film or digital!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_evans4 Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 <p>DAH: <em>I use the same lens I used when I was shooting film, the 20mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor. It's small and perfect for my style of working in close to people.</em></p><p>Jeez, I know I'm old, but I hope I don't sound too fuddy-duddy when I wonder why anyone needs autofocus for 20mm.</p><p>And then I reread:</p><p>DAH: <em>I can take pictures with the camera in my right hand and a cold beer in my left.</em></p><p>I'd never thought of it that way before, but now I realize: <strong>Autofocus: For beer-drinking photography.</strong> Sign me up!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brambor Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 So DAH is not a derivative of DUH, JFk is not a swear. I'm writing it down. BFD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_schneider1 Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 >>DAH: I can take pictures with the camera in my right hand and a cold beer in my left. He sometimes uses the glass of beer as a warming gel over his strobe for indoor shots. True! I saw him teach this trick to one of our undergraduate students during a dinner before his presentation at Ohio University a couple of years back. He's a character! Bill Schneider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_brewton Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 National Geographic Traveler this month went digital. There is a DAH shot of Paris. IMO, it sucks. He should go back to film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brambor Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 FWIW he used RD-1 last year during an assignment in Spain. I think we have discussed it here. BLT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brambor Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00BJ6l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steakandale Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 I guessed who DAH was, but wasn't entirely sure. I must have seen it here before. Its vital to study masters, and expose yourself to all styles. I just don't think any one man or woman should be so highly revered. Its kind of gross. Reminds me of conceited architecture professors who use "Meis", and "Corbu" all the time, like they are in love or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_senzaorbi Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 "Anyone Know for sure what his gear is- (was) Im curious because really good photographers shots elude me somtime. " Me too, but I know better than to think emulating their gear will solve that issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 David Douglas Duncan, the "Yankee Nomad". But I'm over 40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Thanks to all for clearing up what the heck DAH is! Neils, you would be NO?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
________1 Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 National Geographic would have gone out of business eons ago had they clung to old technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nels Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Vivek - When they award a honorary Ph.D. to me, it'd be Dr. NO. Gotta run. Ursula Undress is waiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee_shively Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 I know who DAH is but I just don't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattalofs Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 <p>"David Douglas Duncan, the "Yankee Nomad". But I'm over 40." <p> Heh, you beat me to it, and I'm under 40 by a long shot. For those who don't know him, the HRC has a great online archive of his work here: <p> <a href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/ddd/">http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/ddd/</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_r._fulton_jr. Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Dave Harvey's a really nice guy. He's a friendly funny guy who makes friends and is able to make some very nice photographs of people. In the years I've known him (since 1968) I don't remember him ever saying a bad thing about anybody. The secret to what he does is an ability to be in any situation and make pictures. He does this thru a warm personality and when appropriate a big smile or laugh. He's really not into cameraq equipment. I've never talked with him about cameras but he loves to talk about camera bags. He's always looking for that <I>ultimate</I> camera bag. <g> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonten 10 Posted February 16, 2006 Author Share Posted February 16, 2006 fuhgeddaboudit. Did I get that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgpinc Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 FWIW - off the nikonnet >>> The Basics "Mostly I shoot with the D70," David says. "It's small, light and I've gotten excellent results. Right or wrong, I've got the feeling that if I can minimize the physical impact of the equipment, I'm better off." As far as lenses, the story is the same: "I use the same lens I used when I was shooting film, the 20mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor. It's small and perfect for my style of working in close to people. I'll occasionally use the 50mm f/1.4D AF Nikkor." He says he's never used a zoom lensﾗ"I like small and inconspicuous." The basic kit, then, is the only kit. David might be adding to it soon, though. He's got his eye on a D200ﾗ"still small, still light, but a bigger file size." <<< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gib Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 A few years ago I happened to be in Austin on business and had the chance to visit the LBJ Presidential Library, that would be Lyndon Baines Johnson, and discovered that there was an exhibition of David Douglas Duncan's work. I'm over fifty and had never heard of him but I was enormously glad that I learned about him that day. You could argue that he is no friend of Leica in that he was if not the first, one of the first to try and use and advocate the use of Nikon lenses during the Korean War. I think I remember that correctly. I am over fifty. I will throw out the only D personality initialism that was lodged in my brain DDE Answer: Dwight David Eisenhower And since I am on a tangential roll, if you have not read Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley, about the photo of the flag raisers on Iwo Jima, go out and read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecy Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Would I be completely out of line, unworldly, and callow if I said that DAH's photography just doesn't grab me? I don't see a great master here, just another photographer. Sorry. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brambor Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 It's perfectly normal. There were times in my teens when I thought Dali was the best painter ever, or AA (ansel grizzly adams ;-)) was my idol. We move at different dimensions. I still don't totally salivate over The Americans but currently worship Salgado and Capa. 4 years ago it was HCB... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB_Gallery Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I don't think David is done with film yet, not entirely anyway. I would think that his 35 Lux on a .72 would be at least 60-70% of his eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belverde Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I met David during the Easter in Enna (sicily). During the night shooting he used just a D2X with a 28mm 1.4 prime lens (very good but very bulk lens). 28mm is a prime lens but is bigger than a zoom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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