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Tank Man

Postby photohiker on Wed May 28, 2014 2:32 pm

A recent challenge in a photo group I frequent: Pick a famous photo and recreate it.

I have always liked the power of the Tank Man image, but I was surprised to find that there are several versions of the image from several photographers. I had thought that is was a single image.

Anyway, here is my take:

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I only had 2 Star Wars Clone tanks which I modified to look more like real tanks with turrets and added long aerials to mimic the Chinese tanks, although I am the first to admit they are really nothing like the real McCoy. I cut and folded a piece of white shopping bag and found a small black triangle block for the two shopping bags, held in place with blutac.

The image is comprised of 4 images - I moved the front tank back on each take and then merged them in PS. Camera was set to constant manual exposure and focus. X-Pro1, 1/30th 60mm f/2.4 @ F/8, 1600ISO.

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Postby chrisk on Wed May 28, 2014 2:42 pm

Nice shot. Balakov on flickr has recreated amazing famous photos. He is remarkable.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/se ... 2602191858


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Re: Tank Man

Postby biggerry on Wed May 28, 2014 3:02 pm

cool, but the legoman does not look Asian ;)

Softbox has worked nicely here and generated some nice diffused lighting, cheers for the BTS shot.
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Re: Tank Man

Postby photohiker on Wed May 28, 2014 4:35 pm

The kids' collection of Lego just doesn't have any Asian looking hair. We have a few Asian looking faces, but that is not much use. Modern Lego has all sorts of motifs imprinted on the Lego people's bodies, I had to wipe that off in Post, and it kinda looks like Balakov did too...

Balakov's is a nice shot, but he left the black bag in the left hand out, and they were shopping bags, not suitcases! I'm just jealous because he clearly has a better Lego collection than ours :) Great collection of shots there, after seeing that one, I did a search and found yet another Lego Tank Man, and there I thought mine was original!
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Postby Geoff M on Wed May 28, 2014 6:15 pm

Very cool! We have no Lego in our house, sadly our daughters are just not interested I'm that sort of stuff. I was thinking about getting some scale figures used for train sets to try a few similar things. Quite cheap on flea bay but not sure that the quality would be good enough.


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