I need to do a famous photo: suggestions?

ChaseChase Registered Users Posts: 284 Major grins
edited October 26, 2005 in The Big Picture
Can anyone give me a famous photo that I could fairly easily replicate?

I have to do this for a photo class....take a photo as similar as possible as something famous and I need suggestions.:scratch
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I just press the button and the camera goes CLICK. :dunno
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2005
    Chase wrote:
    Can anyone give me a famous photo that I could fairly easily replicate?

    I have to do this for a photo class....take a photo as similar as possible as something famous and I need suggestions.headscratch.gif


    portrait
    street
    landscape
    sports
    pj
    fine art
    macros
    animals
    wildlife
    ?
    ?
    ?
    ?
    ?

    narrow it down a little, will you?
    Andy

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  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2005
    Whatever you end up with, my I please implore you not to emulate anne geddes? Please please please please please. I'm not sure my stomach can take more creepy sleeping baby shots. eek7.gif

    Head over to your favorite corporate book megastore and pick up Through the Lens: National Geographic's Greatest Photographs. Or just go to Amazon and get it.

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/079226164X/102-0095519-1942564?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

    Plenty of famous shots in there. Good luck!
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2005
    Mike Lane wrote:
    Whatever you end up with, my I please implore you not to emulate anne geddes? Please please please please please. I'm not sure my stomach can take more creepy sleeping baby shots. eek7.gif

    they're not all sleeping lol3.gif
    Andy

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  • MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2005
    Mike Lane wrote:
    Whatever you end up with, my I please implore you not to emulate anne geddes? Please please please please please. I'm not sure my stomach can take more creepy sleeping baby shots. eek7.gif
    OUCH!

    Better get my daughter out of her daisy outfit, ASAP!!rolleyes1.gif
    Mitch
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  • StevenVStevenV Registered Users Posts: 1,174 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2005
    I just want to see you replicate this one yelrotflmao.gif

    2333main_MM_Image_Feature_19_rs4.jpg

    That might impress the teacher thumb.gif

    just get the dang horizon straight.


    btw, I used this search which might pull up a few more suggestions for you.
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  • ChaseChase Registered Users Posts: 284 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2005
    andy wrote:
    portrait
    street
    landscape
    sports
    pj
    fine art
    macros
    animals
    wildlife
    ?
    ?
    ?
    ?
    ?

    narrow it down a little, will you?
    Literally anything. It just has to be pretty famous or maybe recognizable (or perhaps just by a famous photog), and I have to be able to replicate. Ones with famous people oin them are hard cause I dont know anyone who looks like those famous people, and urban street scenes are difficult cause I live in suburban Orange County etc......
    www.chase.smugmug.com
    I just press the button and the camera goes CLICK. :dunno
    Canon: gripped 20d and 30d, 10-22 3.5-4.5, 17-55 IS, 50mm f1.8, 70-200L IS, 85mm f1.8, 420ex
    sigma: 10-20 4-5.6 (for sale), 24-70 2.8 (for sale), 120-300 2.8
  • davevdavev Registered Users Posts: 3,118 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2005
    I've always like this one.

    marines_flag.jpg
    Photographer - Joe Rosenthal
    <TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD align=right>Title:</TD><TD>Marines of the 28th Regiment of the 5th Division Raise the American Flag Atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima,</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>



    Can you be creative?
    Maybe have friends tapping a keg?
    Or maybe a flag with school colors?
    Dentists and a giant toothbrush.

    Photographers and a tripod.

    I think you get the idea.
    dave.

    Basking in the shadows of yesterday's triumphs'.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2005
    davev had a great idea.

    jfk jr at jfk's funeral procession

    cartier-bresson

    this was just voted top magazine cover
    Andy

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  • luckyrweluckyrwe Registered Users Posts: 952 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    Can you find someone to help you with this picture?


    rubyshot.jpg
  • ChaseChase Registered Users Posts: 284 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    The problem with all of these great photographs, is that I need 7 or 8 models in costume or something.....not so easy.

    Also, it cannot be a mock of the photograph. It has to be like the original image.ne_nau.gif
    www.chase.smugmug.com
    I just press the button and the camera goes CLICK. :dunno
    Canon: gripped 20d and 30d, 10-22 3.5-4.5, 17-55 IS, 50mm f1.8, 70-200L IS, 85mm f1.8, 420ex
    sigma: 10-20 4-5.6 (for sale), 24-70 2.8 (for sale), 120-300 2.8
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    Chase wrote:
    The problem with all of these great photographs, is that I need 7 or 8 models in costume or something.....not so easy.

    Also, it cannot be a mock of the photograph. It has to be like the original image.ne_nau.gif

    two of the three examples i gave you, two models and one model ne_nau.gif
    Andy

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  • HarveylevineHarveylevine Registered Users Posts: 325 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    Chase wrote:
    Can anyone give me a famous photo that I could fairly easily replicate?

    I have to do this for a photo class....take a photo as similar as possible as something famous and I need suggestions.headscratch.gif
    Chase:
    There is a wonderful collection of famous photographs in a book with the title: Icons of 20th Century Photography. It is an inexpensive paperback and has hundreds of instantly recognizable classics. You're sure to find many worth replicating. I got my copy at Borders. Here is an Amazon link...

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3791320017/qid=1130242889/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-1375046-1472735?v=glance&s=books

    Harvey
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    Sony A6000
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  • SnapHappySnapHappy Registered Users Posts: 328 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    This could be a good one ........
    http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/writers/lange/power_2
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  • gsgarygsgary Registered Users Posts: 1,350 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    Do you have a friend with blonde hair if so what about the wind blowing up here skirt like Marilyn Monroe
  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    You know, anything from my gallery will probably work for you.

    See, I'm famous... get it?

    Someone back me up on this.

    Anyone?

    Hello?

    ne_nau.gif
    Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

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  • ChaseChase Registered Users Posts: 284 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    gsgary wrote:
    Do you have a friend with blonde hair if so what about the wind blowing up here skirt like Marilyn Monroe
    Somebody in my class already took that idea.

    They also took my other idea of a soldier being shot during the Spanish Civil war. Probably one of the most famous war photographs.
    www.chase.smugmug.com
    I just press the button and the camera goes CLICK. :dunno
    Canon: gripped 20d and 30d, 10-22 3.5-4.5, 17-55 IS, 50mm f1.8, 70-200L IS, 85mm f1.8, 420ex
    sigma: 10-20 4-5.6 (for sale), 24-70 2.8 (for sale), 120-300 2.8
  • ChaseChase Registered Users Posts: 284 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    andy wrote:
    two of the three examples i gave you, two models and one model ne_nau.gif
    Not sure where I am gonna find a pond with a fence behind it like that one......nakedness a no go at a private parochial high school. ne_nau.gif
    www.chase.smugmug.com
    I just press the button and the camera goes CLICK. :dunno
    Canon: gripped 20d and 30d, 10-22 3.5-4.5, 17-55 IS, 50mm f1.8, 70-200L IS, 85mm f1.8, 420ex
    sigma: 10-20 4-5.6 (for sale), 24-70 2.8 (for sale), 120-300 2.8
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    Chase wrote:
    Not sure where I am gonna find a pond with a fence behind it like that one......nakedness a no go at a private parochial high school. ne_nau.gif

    chase - that's a puddle.

    ne_nau.gif sorry, we're all trying to help you :D

    we're not going to give you the answers, the only thing we can do is gently guide you towards some sources and then you and your creativity have to do the rest. but i'm pretty sure, annie l, hcb, steichen, weston, et. al, they never said "i can't do that...."

    so go do it! deal.gif

    we're all looking forward to seeing your results.
    Andy

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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    Here's a great resource from my hometown of Rochester, NY.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    And another one.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited October 25, 2005
    I would do the one of Frida Kahlo in the first link I posted
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  • ChaseChase Registered Users Posts: 284 Major grins
    edited October 26, 2005
    andy wrote:
    chase - that's a puddle.

    ne_nau.gif sorry, we're all trying to help you :D

    we're not going to give you the answers, the only thing we can do is gently guide you towards some sources and then you and your creativity have to do the rest. but i'm pretty sure, annie l, hcb, steichen, weston, et. al, they never said "i can't do that...."

    so go do it! deal.gif

    we're all looking forward to seeing your results.
    SoCal, we dont have puddles very often. umph.gif

    I guess I am being kinda negative, I am just having a hard time coming up with one. My two best ideas were already taken. headscratch.gif
    www.chase.smugmug.com
    I just press the button and the camera goes CLICK. :dunno
    Canon: gripped 20d and 30d, 10-22 3.5-4.5, 17-55 IS, 50mm f1.8, 70-200L IS, 85mm f1.8, 420ex
    sigma: 10-20 4-5.6 (for sale), 24-70 2.8 (for sale), 120-300 2.8
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