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 12:53 PM, Richard Man wrote: > 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. purity maybe ... but correct, maybe ocassionally...? and no more correct than post editing... every image ever made is a crop, therefore an selected/edited bit of history... sometimes representative and "true", sometimes wildly misleading, Steve > 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. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information