Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was just thinking how this is really one of the oldest discussions in photo ethics, and not confined to journalism -- remember Ansel Adams' early days with Group F64? They demanded truth in landscape photography by maximum depth of field (hence the name of the club) and contact printing of their LF negs. Of course, AA was later known to remove a word laid out in rocks on a hillside in one of his photos, to add a moon, and to heavily manipulate the look of a scene through dodging and burning. Doug's there too with his theme of natural light, no filtration, no catch lights for the eyes, etc. Tom