Dominican Republic - Honda Forum / Acura Forum

hellomynameis · 10-15-2007, 10:33 AM

i'm guessing more of you guys have been here than Afghanistan. i went to the Dominican Republic in the summer of 2005 on behalf of yet another non-profit organization. i spent most of my time in a small mountain village named El Limón near Santiago. i also spent a few days in Santo Domingo but didn't have a chance to shoot much, unfortunately.

Santo Domingo

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El Limón

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somebody's probably going to ask me this eventually, so i'll just post the setup i used for these shots.

Nikon D70 with 18-70mm f3.5-4.5 (plus SB-600 for a few shots) for all the color and straight greyscale

Nikkormat FT3 with 50mm f1.8 on Kodak 400TX for all the warm-toned greyscale

tienlude · 10-15-2007, 05:07 PM

tell me you have more.

AcidLotus · 10-15-2007, 09:59 PM

Those are excellent! Very moving!

accord dude · 10-16-2007, 06:37 AM

Great photos man. I would love to get to do something like this. How did you get this opertunity/

riceboy89 · 10-16-2007, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by accord dude

Great photos man. I would love to get to do something like this. How did you get this opertunity/

yeah, youre seriously doing something i dream about.

not to be critical in any way, but what iso setting did you use? maybe its just me but it seems like theres a bit of noise in a few of the images.

i seriously look forward to your posts everytime i log into sho lol.

hellomynameis · 10-16-2007, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by accord dude

Great photos man. I would love to get to do something like this. How did you get this opertunity/

mainly through connections, i know a lot of people involved in non-profit humanitarian organizations and they know people, etc...

if you want to do something similar, i would suggest building up a portfolio of just stuff you see on a daily basis. the photos i take are just a documentation of somebody's everyday life and surroundings, after all. after you build up a good portfolio, then start taking it around to some organizations. start small and/or local unless you're extremely confident that the Red Cross will hire you on the spot

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Originally Posted by riceboy89

not to be critical in any way, but what iso setting did you use? maybe its just me but it seems like theres a bit of noise in a few of the images.

if you're talking about the warm-toned black and white photos, they were shot on kodak 400TX (iso 400) print film and scanned in with a Konica Minolta dimage scan IV.