54/365 | Troopers Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

    Today's photo pays homage to a photo taken by Joe Rosenthal entitled Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. The original photograph was taken on February 23, 1945.

    Shortly after Rosenthal's photo was taken, it became one of the most significant and most recognizable images of the war. In fact, it has been said that this image is the most reproduced image of all time.

    I hope I have done it some justice.

    Enjoy!

    This photo is the first of many images to come in my mini series Cloned Photos.

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    Comments and faves

    1. ★

      The DAVE Photography, Chaos2k, dustinmccollum, Life-Is-An-Art(Mark), and 62 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Original by Joe Rosenthal

      Set Up Shot

      Another more recent famous flag raising.

      Thanks to scrawnysumo for some great advice!

      Flash is located behind the computer monitor and is @ 1/8th power. Shutter is 1/15 and aperture is 5.6.

    3. ★TONI★ www.COLORSTEPS.com (27 months ago | reply)

      thats cool ! ... thanks for the set up shot ...

    4. kpspap95 (27 months ago | reply)

      Wow, great set up. Great looking shot.

    5. scrawnysumo (27 months ago | reply)

      This looks great. Awesome job!

    6. Ryan Abbas (27 months ago | reply)

      Wow, amazing setup and great image!

    7. Alfredo Barros G ♥  (27 months ago | reply)



      Seen in :
      Pics for Peace

    8. Chaos2k (27 months ago | reply)

      Awesome. I'm really enjoying this series

    9. dustinmccollum (27 months ago | reply)

      very cool

    10. CGA[AvoidingResourcefulGooglers] (27 months ago | reply)

      Fantastic! I love the way you incorporated the background. I've never thought of that!!

    11. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Thanks Toni, glad you enjoyed it!
      Thanks once again kpspap95.
      Thanks again for your advice, very much appreciated.
      Thanks Ryan!
      Thanks Brian, glad you're still liking the daily shots!
      Thank you.
      Take a look at some of scrawnysumo's shots, he has used the same technique.

    12. eCHstigma (27 months ago | reply)

      neat

    13. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Thank you.

    14. Life-Is-An-Art(Mark) (27 months ago | reply)

      This is awesome! incredible set up!

    15. Tomas Ocadly (27 months ago | reply)

      shutter speed ? just interest :)
      looks cool !

    16. blaster_e11 (27 months ago | reply)

      cool pic

      too bad for this R2 w/ sensorscope :p

    17. Peter van der Plaat (27 months ago | reply)

      great image

    18. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Thanks again!
      Shutter speed was 1/15 and aperture was 5.6 for the background. There was also a flash for the troopers.
      lol. Thought it would be fun to add him...3P0 is also in there!
      Thanks Peter!

    19. Gramicidin (27 months ago | reply)

      Great job! I love the idea of using the monitor as the background. Saves a load of trouble. :P

    20. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Thank you so much! It was a pretty good idea, just wish it was mine! You should checkout scrawnysumo's shots, that's where I got the idea from.

    21. Kalexanderson (27 months ago | reply)

      Great!!!

    22. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Thanks!

    23. ShawnP-RW (27 months ago | reply)

      Awesome picture and great attention to detail. I pulled the original and compared them side by side and they are nearly identical.

    24. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Great to hear that you enjoyed the shot. I'll admit it took a while to get some of the detail. There are also the addition of R2 and 3P0 for a little humour! I've got a few more reproduction shots like this one in mind.

    25. majikam (27 months ago | reply)

      You've certainly done a fantastic job! Absolutely clever & amazing.

    26. 1/6th shooter (27 months ago | reply)

      Great Job a very well executed idea !

    27. .ansgar (27 months ago | reply)

      Cool!

    28. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Thanks so much, very much appreciated!
      Thanks for the support.
      :o)

    29. Robert C. Armstrong (27 months ago | reply)

      This one is pretty cool. Well done.

    30. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Thanks again Robert. It was a hard one to do.

    31. leg0fenris (27 months ago | reply)

      glad i found your stream! excellent work!

    32. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Thank you and ditto, I found your "lack of pants..." very amusing when you first posted it!

    33. Evan MacPhail Photography (27 months ago | reply)

      Great work. B&W was a good choice.

    34. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Thanks again, so far this was one of my favourites to photograph...more to come in the Cloned Photos series.

    35. Rain Arenas (27 months ago | reply)

      Wow!!!! Just....wow!!!! For this photo, I salute you sir!

    36. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Thank you so much. It was a very fun one to put together. Hopefully I can come up with some other historical shots...the problem is finding the exact date they were taken on. Glad you enjoyed it!

    37. ChicaD58 (busy) (27 months ago | reply)

      Excellent B&W! First class job! Also, really like how you show the set up.

    38. south of the metro (27 months ago | reply)

      Seen this awesome work at
      Thank you for sharing

    39. egerbver (27 months ago | reply)

      Thank you! I really enjoyed creating this one. I'm going to try to remember to show more set up shots like this, because I know I've found it helpful when looking at other's works.

    40. Storm troopers & stuff (26 months ago | reply)

      I like photo you did. But that is the wrong symbol it should be this
      media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/13/12172/republ ic_symbol.png
      Just a little detail. I give this photo 9.9 out of 10. Sorry for being geek.

    41. egerbver (26 months ago | reply)

      Glad you liked the shot. Don't worry about being a geek, I should have caught that...oops! Thanks for the feedback.

    42. The Artfuldodger (24 months ago | reply)

      Brilliant, wish i had thought of it! awesome concept

    43. egerbver (24 months ago | reply)

      Thank you Gerard! Very much appreciated!

    44. egerbver (24 months ago | reply)

      Thanks so much for the favourites everyone!

    45. Roser <needsmorecaffeine> (23 months ago | reply)

      Perfect shot!! And a VERY original setup!!!

    46. egerbver (23 months ago | reply)

      Thank you Roser. This is by far one of my favourites so far. It took a lot of effort, but the end result is fantastic. Thanks for the support!

    47. Blockaderunner (22 months ago | reply)

      Works perfectly....love the R2 and 3PO parts scattered all over the place....

    48. egerbver (22 months ago | reply)

      Thank you. Sometimes it is the little details (that can go unnoticed at first) that make the photo. In this case, it is R2 and 3PO. They really do make this shot for me.

    49. boywu1985 (18 months ago | reply)

      Nice picture!

    50. egerbver (17 months ago | reply)

      It seems a little late to say thank you, but thank you very much :o)

    51. jinx_gfx (15 months ago | reply)

      hello sir, i tried this but i get scan lines. what am i doing wrong? thanks in adv.

    52. egerbver (15 months ago | reply)

      hmmm....scan lines? I assume the scan lines are showing up on your computer monitor? Try adjusting your DoF to a shallower one, so that it is not focused on the screen...hopefully that works...

    53. Simon Pegg 1976 (11 months ago | reply)

      Superb!
      I did a little something similar, but in Lego:
      www.flickr.com/photos/simonpegg1976/698700888 0/

    54. egerbver (11 months ago | reply)

      Just had a look SImon, it looks pretty good. Love the Hoth idea!

    55. Justin Rampage (10 months ago | reply)

      Excellent work man. I really enjoyed all of your series! [Laughing Squid]

    56. egerbver (10 months ago | reply)

      Hey thanks so much Justin. I checked out the post on Laughing Squid. Very nice, thank you so much for the article!

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