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For more about thisamazing and chilling Memorial go to http://www.holocaustmmb.org/although it there is nothing like seeing it in person.

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THanks For watching, please comment.

From the Memorial sculptor:

Sensing Both Love and Fear - The free-standing bronze figures

surrounding the base are life-size so that the viewer becomes part of

the sculpture ... he touches and fondles ... he senses both love and fear.

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Thanks again Deidre, more coments from Kenneth Treister the sculptor:

The first sculpture is of a mother and two nestling children fearful as the signs of the Holocaust first appear. Their faces ask... "can it happen?" . . . "will God forsake us? The sculpture is framed by Anne Frank's message"... that in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

Thanks for your comments Deidre, I'm glad you liked the photo.

The sculptor is Kenneth Treister. Here's a qoute from him:

This is my portrayal of the Holocaust ... frozen in a patined bronze. A giant outstretched arm, tattooed with a number from Auschwitz, rises from the earth, the last reach of a dying person. Each visitor has his own interpretation ... some see despair ... some hope ... some the last grasp for life . . . and for some it asks a question to God... "Why?"

This is one of the faces attached to the hand in the Memorial. Every

face is even more scarier than the previous one.

Some day I'll go see the memorial at night... must be really something.

This is an incredible site, not only to photograph but the sculptor

did a really good job in transmitting the horror of the Jewish Genocide.

Thanks for your comments.

Regina: I just used the built in flash of my D50. I always shoot on RAW, so for this example I can create multiple 8bit jpgs at different exposures from the same exposed image. I used four shots from -2 through +1.

I still need to get used to the controls of the software because with this kind of rather extreme tone range manipulation, you start seeing a blur of highter exposure around the elements that require increased exposure over the lower exposed background. The resulting lighting is quite dramatic and eye catching though.

Fede

What do you think of this one. It was late afternoon, I thought it wasa great scene.

Thanks, please critique

You managed to add a lot of density to the otherwise linear captures that we are accostumed to see in this type of subject.

Congratulations!

Thanks Ed, this was my first fireworks shoot.

I read a couple of articles on how to do it, bought the IR remote, picked up my crappy tripod and left. Didn't have the opportunity to get the location I wanted as I was with the wife and friends but it was a lot of fun.

Although the remote prooved to be crucial, it is a little unconfortable to use. The D50 doesn't accept a trigger cable, it only has the IR remote and the IR receiver on it is under the shooter-release button facing forward. I had to place the remote in front of the camera to make it work.

Fede