Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric wrote: << if you're talking about illustrations - fashion or food, you're right. >>>>> Eric, Yes I meant in this situation and certainly not re-creating a news situation. My description wasn't quite clear enough. When I lived in Ottawa there was a young shooter who day after day kept coming up with these great human interest pictures and other "news" type photos. He was getting a great deal of admiration for his quickness of finger and eye. One day there was a road construction scene on the front page of workers and in the foreground was one of the flashing yellow light markers they surround the area being worked. On the round light was a "Happy Face" drawn in the dust on the light. It's was one of those you had to see it to really appreciate how good the shot was. Canadian Press called the Citizen photo department requesting a print to put on the wire and when the print arrived there wasn't any "Happy Face!" They called the Citizen, "You sent the wrong picture we want the one with the Happy Face on the Light." And that's when it was discovered the photographer had used spotting colour on the finished print drawing in the Happy Face before he turned it in and nobody had noticed. This triggered a check on what else he had been doing and it was discovered he had been setting-up many of the "neat pictures" we had been admiring him for. Including many of the "children doing things" where he had paid the kids a buck to perform for his camera. Then of course the captions were written to imply the photographer "had caught the moment" of this child in action. He was gone out of existance that day! Like you, I do not condone for one second re-creating a situation and then calling it reality! ted