Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 3/25/2005 9:18:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, tedgrant@shaw.ca writes: <<Hi Philippe, Well in my work as a Photojournalist truth exists every time I press the shutter release capturing the subject I'm working on. What you see is what I saw as a motivating moment when I tripped the shutter. Quite frankly a good photographer knowing his profession doesn't have to resort to "Photoshop cheating, some prefer "improving" to make brownie points for his or her ability. Or lack there of! Some of us are honest about what we shoot simply because we come from the days when a man's hand shake or word was accepted as honour bound to truth. Whether about a photograph or any other detail of business or life. Unfortunately somewhere along the way the honour system was lost due to those bent on nefarious ways to line their pockets with gold and the truth and that's when honour, man to man was lost.>> Hey Ted: You should go a little lighter on those of us that use "cheating" to improve a photo. If I recall correctly, you are one of those guys that use B&W for most of your work, and that certainly is one of the earliest forms of truth manipulation in photography. I'm sure that you also use at times, other forms of photographic control, (cheating as you say). A Noctilux at f1.0 does not image a true representation of a scene. No one standing in an OR would see the scene of a surgeon bent over a patient with scalpel in hand in the same fashion as you show it through your Noctilux. You are a master of light and produce beautiful photographs, but certainly not the "truth". With all due respect from one old codger to another. Paul Connet