Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But not all professional photographers are photo-journalists. The point is: what is the purpose of the photograph. Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. On Dec 12, 2012, at 5:31 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Sorry this becomes more confusing as the day goes on! > > When you are a professional and on the staff of a wire service or an > independent company and or on the staff of a newspaper? Magazine? You > bloody well shoot what you are told and or the type of publication uses! > Is that so hard to understand. I suppose so if you have always been in the > "amateur photog classification?" > > You have an assignment where you are on board a deep sea fishing trawler > for 3 to 4 weeks at sea and you have hundreds of rolls of film, > black&white only! As you document the lives of the crew. > > You don't have time to consider thoughts of "gee whiz I wonder if it would > look better in colour? Slide or negative?" Or you may have the direct > opposite and be shooting only Kodachrome! You only think about the > subjects and how well you have documented their lives! Like I said > before....... "IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CONTENT!" > > You are sent or given assignments because you are a silent observer and > capture the life or lives of your subjects with no other thoughts but? > Bringing home perfect images illustrating what happens with as much story > telling impact as possible! And the type of film has no bearing on your > immediate project, but success of the images! > > This diddly back and forth jabberwocky seen here the past couple of days > re... colour - B&W is nothing more than an utter waste of time if one is a > professional photojournalist! What's worse ? That I'm stupid enough to > get pissed off and waste my time answering it! If I didn't have the real > life day to day years after years real time actually living it? I suppose > I wouldn't care about this as much as I do! > > But some of you guys twiddle on about some of the most innocuous drivel > that has nothing to do with real life as a professional photographer, it's > quite revolting at times! ! > > There are quite a number of the crew who have purchased my medical books > all shot in B&W! Let alone the countless hundreds of medical people and > not one comment about shooting any of it in colour! WHY? The books are B&W > because the subject is so powerful in B&W that if shot in colour? > > The colours become an absolute distraction! How do I know?? Quite simple > really. Because I have shot hundreds of rolls in colour and when you are > mixing various coloured OR sterile clothes, locations and whatever other > tidbits of colour in an OR? You do not look at the impact of the content! > PERIOD! It's all the brilliant lighting and colours constantly distracting > your vision! > > And for those of you who have never opened one of my medical books? Then > maybe you should and see what real B&W available light as you see it Leica > photography is all about! Maybe you'll learn something when you can ask > questions of the still living photographer! Instead of re-hashed stories > about some long dead character. > > have a nice day! > > Dr. ted > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information