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Discussion in 'Eastern Europe' started by Kai-Petri, Mar 9, 2003.

  1. Kai-Petri

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    Good pics Kai--are these from Hans Wijers site? just wondering :D
     
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  3. Kai-Petri

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    Actually the site is below the pics and you can see some 30 more pics I think there..

    And it says that it is Howard Schickler Fine Art , the site that is.

    Anyway, Carl, do you think those people from Vienna committed suicide? I think the pic looks a bit weird like they were sitting there and someone nice and polite persons shot them in the head...maybe Nazis but not a very evident suicide body configuration, I think...

    :eek:
     
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    Ooops--sorry about that my friend--I didnt see the link posted. ;)

    I don't know--that pic of the "suicide victims" definately looks staged. I agree-with you, it isnt very natural-looking.
     
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    They were probably shot as the Soviets were closing in.
     
    VYACHESLAV, Mar 12, 2003
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    The third photo has clearly been tampered with, look at the sky in the background. :mad:

    Best regards/ Daniel
     
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    That is a standard technique in black-and-white photo printing. It is called "burning-in."

    Very light areas, especially around the edges of the photo, are given a little extra exposure to darken them. It keeps the sky from looking washed out, and also helps keep the viewer's eye centered on the subject/foreground of the photo instead of wandering off to the edges/background.

    It isn't really deceptive. It simply makes the image less confusing to the eye. It doesn't change the content or meaning of the image.
     
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    This has nothing to do with THESE photos, but I personally have found quite a few "tampered with" Soviet photos. I guess it's no surprise, and everyone posed photos, but there is one specifically that I found in a Soviet book about WWII here at the library. I recognized it as a picture of my favorite 9th US Inf. Div. on Utah beach in a trench...a relatively common shot. But they made it "fuzzy", for lack of a better term. And I swear they just painted over the helmets and rifles to make them look a little different. If I remember correctly, there was a dead giveaway....maybe a US e-tool?
     
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    Yep! One of the more well-known ones is the re-enacted raising of the flag over the Reichstag. First of all is the fact that people in street below are casually strolling along, clearly showing the picture is taken post-battle. After developing the picture it was also found that one of the soldiers carried two watches, so one (or perhaps both - don't remember offhand) of the looted watches was edited out of the pic.

    Then we have this one:
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    Which originally had a clearer sky, but was later supplied with this more ominous one...
     
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    Good pics!! ;)

    Does anyone have any modern pics from Russia?

    Phil [​IMG]
     
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    [​IMG]

    Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov near Reighstag, May 1945
     
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    I think the Reichstag....has seen better days don't you think?
     
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    Check the pillars...probably something like "Ivan was here!" or the more usual " Hitler is kaputt!"...

    :eek:
     
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    Yeah I agree. And the one that gets me the most in that picture is the piller to the right--where you see the shellburst and schrapnel damage. :eek: :eek: Berlin 1945 just wouldn't be a place to be in--that's for sure. :eek: :eek:
     
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  17. Kai-Petri

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    Excellent pics!

    Thanx Unix!

    ;)
     
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    That's great stuff Unix, except for one "famous" shot I hadn't seen those before!
     
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