Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 5, 2010, at 12:48 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > 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. every single photo ever made is a crop, therefore an edited bit of history... Steve > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information