[Leica] The Joys of (Bad) Digital Photography

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

1.we are talking about Parade Magazine aren't we? or are we talking abt 
Aperture?
2. the "public" neither knows the difference nor cares. The only people who 
care abut this kind of thing are foto folks.
3. you have wayyyyy to much time on your hands. As Ted wld say - put some 
film in your Leikee and get out there and shoot. :-)


...... Original Message .......
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:24:10 -0700 Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.net> wrote:
>I was just looking at Parade magazine, which comes with my Sunday 
>paper.  On the next to last page, there is a celebrity profile: "In Step 
>With Debi Mazar."  The accompanying photo is so unbelievably bad that I 
>can't believe it made it into a national publication.  Especially since 
>this was a feature, not a spot-news rush job.
>
>When I first saw it, I thought, "this looks strange."  The I realized that 
>it was because Ms. Mazar's pupils looked vertical and cat-like. Then I 
took 
>a closer look and realized that both her pupils, and the catchlights in 
her 
>eyes were *rectangular.*  As in, the shape of a pixel. Aaaaaaaagh!
>
>Somebody needs to "send in their clones" tool, or take a knife to their 
>sharpening algorithm.  This photo is almost in the same league as the 
>portrait of a haggard Tony Blair that appeared in a major publication a 
>while back, complete with doughnut-shaped catchlights in the P.M.'s eyes 
>from a ring flash.
>
>Somebody is either unbelievably incompetent, thinks that the public is so 
>stupid they won't notice, or is deliberately trying to make the subjects 
>look bad.  Or management has cut the staff or tightened deadlines to the 
>point where nobody has time to do a little basic quality control.
>
>--Peter
>
>
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