Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just playing Devil's Advocate here: I guess there is certain purity in what the photographer sees as his immediate reactions, and using his equipments he has on hand right then and there. Any post editing afterward becomes editorially changed. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:48 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>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. > > 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 > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> blog: < http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // portfolio: <http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/AnotherCalifornia > // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]