[Leica] The Truth : Was "B.D. PAW"

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

There's a difference, Paul, between the fact that different
photographers will see and capture a scene differently, and creating an
image afterwards that bears no relation to the scene. What Ted does, or
what any of us do, is see what's before us, and then do our best to
capture it. 

What someone does who puts together parts of different images is create
from scraps an image that exists only in his or her mind - like the
painter who envisions something no one has ever seen and then puts it on
canvas.

B. D.

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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
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