Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics" <saganicc@MSKCC.ORG> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 10:06 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHERS; Leicas > Good idea, their no use to you dead, better then in a museum under controlled lighting conditions accessible by only a relatively small percentage of the population. > > Chris Saganich > > > -----Original Message----- > From: tripspud@transbay.net [mailto:tripspud@transbay.net] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:31 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHERS; Leicas > > Hi BR, > > Yeah, to remain a pure artist-photographer, who? Like, > sell an image and it gets reproduced in magazines. You could > became hyper-extreme, only show your photomaster pieces in > your home under controlled lighting to your hand selected people, > burn all the prints and negatives when you die. > > Cheers, > > Rich Lahrson > Berkeley, California > tripspud@transbay.net > > Afterswift@aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 9/5/03 10:35:19 AM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: > > > > << digital technology has worsened the picture by making it very easy to > > further blur the distinctions between the reporting, and > > government-spin, > > entertainment-advertising media > > > > HOW? >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > By modifying normal stock images to sell products in magazines. The same > > thing is done in government report illustrations and it's rampant in advertising > > and entertainment. Just look at the posters and the card ads on buses, etc. > > There isn't an untouched up photo in any of those venues. There's a promo shot > > obviously enhanced of a buxom working girl that is used in the Times to push > > retirement stocks. Digital editing is used all over the place -- including even > > on the LUG. I attribute that form of modification to mostly make an image > > clearer on our monitors. > > > > br > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > ===================================================================== > > Please note that this e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be > privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure under > applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this > message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this > communication or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If > you have received this communication in error, please notify the > sender immediately by replying to this message and deleting this > message, any attachments, and all copies and backups from your > computer. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html