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The Cars => GT40 - Original/Mk V => Topic started by: 6S280 on June 04, 2022, 01:06:02 PM

Title: Photo Availability
Post by: 6S280 on June 04, 2022, 01:06:02 PM
Is there a hi-resolution version of this photo available any where?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Photo Availability
Post by: honker on June 04, 2022, 01:33:36 PM
From my files, this is I think better ? I believe there is a whole series of these photos, I've only seen a couple. Each car was shot in

front of the others, before they shipped to Le Mans in '66. There are a couple in the Friedman books, he was the official photog for

Shelby. You might want to contact him if you want a good copy, could be expensive !

Mike

(photo: Dave Friedman)
Title: Re: Photo Availability
Post by: Richstang on June 04, 2022, 03:34:40 PM
I don't think it was a photo taken by Friedman.
It was written somewhere he left Shelby American in 1965.
Title: Re: Photo Availability
Post by: 6S280 on June 05, 2022, 06:10:05 AM
I found this higher resolution version (962kB, 3072x2048 though loading here cuts the size significantly) searching further on the Internet.  Interesting to note that it is the exact "shot" as I originally posted but cropped at the top.  Both of mine are different from the version Mike posted - note the position of the dark object towards the upper left corner and what appears to be a plane in the far upper left hand corner of Mike's.

Roger
Title: Re: Photo Availability
Post by: 98SVT - was 06GT on June 05, 2022, 02:00:36 PM
There would be several frames that are the "same". Film was cheap compared to having to reshoot something. The photographer would have probably shot a couple rolls of 120 film in his Hasselblad for a cover or lead shot using different time and F stop settings to shoot exactly what the editor sent him to get. 35mm was generally used for B&W or action type shots. One time we used a 4x5 camera to shoot a Mustang Illustrated cover at night.

It is a Friedman photo this was probably shot the same day - https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/463161

You can search the Frieman photos at Ford here - https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/search-results#advancedSearch=1&tab=artifact-results&s.0.in=collectionTitle&s.0.for=Dave%20Friedman%20Collection&years=0-0&perPage=10&pageNum=1&sortBy=relevance


Title: Re: Photo Availability
Post by: JD on June 05, 2022, 02:06:24 PM
Quote from: 6S280 on June 05, 2022, 06:10:05 AM
I found this higher resolution version (962kB, 3072x2048 though loading here cuts the size significantly) searching further on the Internet.  Interesting to note that it is the exact "shot" as I originally posted but cropped at the top.  Both of mine are different from the version Mike posted - note the position of the dark object towards the upper left corner and what appears to be a plane in the far upper left hand corner of Mike's.

Roger

Kinda looks like a tow lift, maybe it moved in/out of the frame on different exposures?