[Leica] [OM] IMG: The Blessing, Redone

[Sonny Carter]

She was not there as a news shooter, she was there at the invitation of the DL. 

He had an ugly thing. It needed to be removed, if it was a zit it should have been removed, but it was a stupid mistake by his handlers, and Tina fixed it, just as if it were a zit.

From one old fart to another slightly older fart ;-)

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Sonny

> On Nov 10, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tina & Nathan:
> 
> My re-action is the same as both of you. It's there and I'm covering it as a
> "NEWS EVENT?" The mike stays or if space and time allow. And I could find an
> angle where the mike wasn't seen? I suppose shooting from his right-hand
> side in this case? 
> 
> But only if there was space and it also afforded an interesting angle I
> could move to. OR? I was allowed to move to, I would?
> 
> That option doesn't always present itself at an event such as this.
> 
> However, if nothing could be done then you run with the image you captured
> with no concerns about the mike as it's part of being a photojournalist and
> not a commercial shooter who would probably clean the shot up and remove it.
> 
> But as Tina points out. When and if she were to sell it as a "commercial
> photo" not a "news photo." She Might? Could? Maybe no mike in sight?
> Particularly these days on a computer screen, it's a piece of cake! And that
> is fair game.
> 
> However? These days with so many unscrupulous characters with all kinds of
> "recording devices?" What you see isn't real in many cases. Or they'd not
> likely have seen the mike as a "Real Photographer would!" And if used in any
> form of news event they'd change the reality of the moment. ERGO? It becomes
> a lying cheating piece of untruthful piece of garbage! That should be in
> file 13! The garbage pit!
> 
> cheers,
> Dr. ted 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Tina Manley
> Sent: November-10-14 10:43 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] [OM] IMG: The Blessing, Redone
> 
> If it's intended as documentary, I don't make changes like that.  This will
> be used for stock and promotional photos, both of which are often much more
> heavily manipulated than removing a mike.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
> 
>> Removing the mike crosses a line which I am not willing to cross with my
>> own photos. But of course this is your photo and your decision.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> 
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>> YNWA
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>>> On 10 Nov 2014, at 17:10, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> PESO:
>>> 
>>> I worked on The Blessing photo, desaturating the flowers in the
>> background
>>> and removing the mike from HHDL's mouth:
>>> 
>>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/158185541
>>> 
>>> Better?  The two previous are the other editions.
>>> 
>>> C&C greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Tina
>>> 
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