Strobist Flag Raising on Iwo Jima
A shot inspired by Joe Rosenthal’s classic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima. This time, the Strobist “flag” is being raised by the London Strobist Group on Tooting Bec Common, near Balham in London.
The idea was to have a group shot which was a little different to the norm. It’s far from perfect, and obviously not an exact facsimile of the original (the geography unfortunately didn’t provide us with a clear background as with the original), but hopefully close enough to be recognisable, with a very different twist…
Additionally, a much larger version is available to view over on my SmugMug site.
Strobist info: the “flag” flash you can obviously see. A selection of others were used, primarily an SB-900 and SB-800 to the front of camera to the left, both pumped to the max with no modifiers to beat down the sun, with the overall ambient dropped down around 4 stops.
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