Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05

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Subject: [Leica] Crazy
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:48:30 -0600
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what did he "lie" about?
he chose to visually talk about wrapping a fighter's hand
in a visually dramatic manner.

he chose not to talk about people standing in the background.
had he a 75mm lens on the camera at that moment
he'd very well may have made the photo without cropping a wider view.

what do you know from the full frame color
that you don't know from the cropped b&w?

is that additional knowledge important to you or the story?

Every documentary photographer and writer throughout history
has chosen what to include and exclude from their stories.

If you want the absolute, unvarnished truth,
you need at least three video cameras
running 24/7
everywhere
then view it all
unedited.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:26 PM, John Edwin Mason wrote:

> It's photojournalism, Tina, not art photography.  He's created a lie.



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