Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Does it make any difference that this is not an American magazine? On Jul 6, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> This is too depressing. Removing the lady altered the truth of >> the photo. >> Period. It made Obama look isolated and alone. That was not the >> truth. >> This is a very slippery slope and we're sliding down it too fast. >> >> Tina > > > We he may have been feeling very isolated and alone. > He may have not been aware of the women or known her name. > The photo appears to have been taken with a very long lens say a > 300 or 400 > compressing his relationship to the oil rig in the background. > In reality that oil rig may have been not something he was all that > aware > of. It was way off in the distance. > But the magazine wanted a pictures of the Pres and an oil rig. And > water. > They didn't want ladies. The didn't want an oil rig as a spec in the > horizon. So they approached the issue of putting a cover together > the way > they've always approached it. And long ago their workflo went from > analog to > digital. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information