Assignment #26 – Downwinders Vigil
There were a lot of sad stories last night at the Day of Remembrance for Downwinders. Above is Ira Hinckley, remembering his father, David Hinckley, who died of cancer after working in Southern Utah for the Atomic Energy Commission. As the assignment read,
Nearly 1,000 nuclear weapons were detonated at the Nevada Test Site during the Cold War, and they sent clouds of radioactive fallout across the United States, exposing a generation of Americans to radiation.
I thought I was shooting RAW with the Fuji X100, but wasn’t. The frame below is a jpeg straight out of the camera with no adjustments:
I shoot everything in Velvia mode. Who would have thought that in 2012 you could shoot Velvia at 3200 ISO instead of 50? The frame is nearly perfect, aside from the easily correctable greenish cast that my Fuji shots seem to have.
Dude… you need to write off the cost of that Fuji as an unreimbursed business expense since you seem to be using it for work in place of an updated Canon that the Tribune should be buying you.
Love that last frame. The illuminated faces reflected in the water and the light source above their heads just cropped out of frame. Its wonderful.