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I wonder how the secret service reacted to that...

Cool photo anyway

I would imagine they were fine since its hardly like they'd let just anyone meet the president, i'm sure he was throughly checked out, also he does a lot of work for charity hence why Obama went there.

Alfred Hitchcock, New York.

1947

Irving Penn

^Beautiful!

Assembly line for some old plane

Porsche 911 assembly line, 1970
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Soon?

Porsche 911 assembly line, 1970
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Meanwhile in the DDR...

A tank takes an Opposition outpost by surprise in Aleppo, Syria.
Taken by Tracey Shelton - GlobalPost

I'm probably wrong but this series of images look doctored?

The blast impact just looks like the previous image but with some post production.

I would have expected some movement from shockwave?

Closest person - right leg position
Guy with SAW - right hand position
Guy on far left - head position

Not the same image to my eyes.

There is bound to be a few seconds before the second picture was taken. Enough time for some movement..

I suspect it was shot on continuous shot mode. With a good spec DSLR you can get a good number of shots per second, the top Nikon does 10fps, so minimal movement would be expected at that speed.

Nikons cameras, take the D300 for example, have two speeds of continuous shooting; CH & CL (continuous high & low), and they can be set at different speeds:

[in CL the] Default is 3 FPS... You can set this to any integer between 1 FPS and 7 FPS in Custom Function d4.

So you can't accurately say how fast the frames were taken. Typically CH is used by sports photographers because of the high speeds involved. I wouldn't expect a reporter to be using CH, as you'd be getting tons of photos most of which you wouldn't use, not a good thing if you're on assignment all for a long time.

also, even their cheapest pro DSLR does 5fps...

I don't know, if I was in war zone with a tank around, I might be tempted to keep the camera on continuous shooting mode, you can still trigger individual shots to save space, but storage cards are so cheap, the only real consideration is battery.

I've used continuous shooting at airshows, where I'm not certain what framing I'll get, and it gives me a better chance on the shot, but then I'm not a pro.

There is some movement between the pics, as pointed out by Aroogah

Closest person - right leg position
Guy with SAW - right hand position
Guy on far left - head position

I'd say that was either continuous shooting, or retriggering on the sound of the shot, as fast as possiable on manual, and getting lucky.

Well i think its real, and believe me, I've seen a few pixels in my time

Exactly, so maybe the second photo was the one that visually looked the best but was not necessarily the next photo of the sequence.

Anyway. Top photo.

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Truman Capote. By Irving Penn, 1965.

drops jaw

drops jaw

Cryptic question.

I've been in love with Penn's pictures since the exhibition at the national portrait gallery.

God I wish I could time travel

Ukrainian gf ftw :-)

via: http://englishrussia.com/2012/09/12/thrill-seeker-from-kiev/

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This is an absolute goldmine

That is if you like photojournalism, of course.

Remembering the death of Steven Biko