Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/26

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Subject: [Leica] Sharpness is not all that important
From: lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:38:06 -0400
 
Nathan Wajsman wrote:

Taken this morning. I was not sure about publishing it, given the lack

of sharpness, but then again, sometimes even an unsharp picture might be

worth looking at. You decide:


http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#661140162_SMWpJ-O-LB



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In my brief newspaper career I had a photo editor who recited two mantras.
1. Content is more important than quality. Readers buy the paper because
they want to see what happened not how well it was photographed.
2. Your camera is the reader's eyeball surrogate. The picture would show
what the reader would see if he was standing in your position. Any
alteration of a photo (use of telephoto or wide angle lenses) is
editorializing.
Your picture would have made him happy.
Larry Z