Totally Radical Pic
© Lynsey Addario
It might be that some of you look at editorial news photography and get all snooty but, listen, that’s kind of dumb. This picture is totally blowing my mind, to borrow a phrase from a friend. And the article it’s illustrating is interesting also. But not as interesting as the picture.
Lynsey has an incredibly impressive bio: voted young photographer of the year 500 times by 500 different organizations, been in the PDN 30 and has photographed for the New York Times, Associated Press, and is currently the recipient of a Getty editorial grant to continue her work in the Middle East. She takes this work so seriously, in fact, that in 2003 she moved to Istanbul to be closer to the action. And I’m going to travel there to work for her, I swear to god.
February 28th, 2009 at 1:49 am
holy crap. her work is amazing — i love the use of light in it. thanks for the link.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:45 am
The lighting is good. It appears to combine a widened and diffused on-camera flash (acting as a front and fill light) with the daylight on the landscape seen out the window. The trick, like Goldilocks eating the bears’ porridge, is to make the flash not too strong, not too weak, but just right.
Some old photographers called this balancing act “ambient/strobe ratio.” It’s good that photographers still know how to do this “fill flash.”