Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:06 PM 9/15/99 -0400, Paul Schiemer wrote: >We, as photographers, know what we get is usually a 'truthful' >representation of reality. We can play with that reality a bit, both in >taking the image and then in the darkroom. No we can't. To "play" with the reality, as the photograph is capable of conveying it - no photo is a direct translation of a scene after all since it's going from 3D to 2D - is unethical to any degree at all. We should only work on the photo to make it as accurate a description of the scene as possible. That goes for journalists and documentary photographers. Not artists, hobbyists, commercial/advertising photographers or art photographers. Good editors respect the vision of the photographer. A good editor won't change a photo, or manipulate a photo to fit in a preconceived layout. Good design is invisible. It respects the photos and text. Hack editors lay out a page before they know what the photos are going to be (not counting last-minute photos that are shot on deadline and the photographer is consulted about it before shooting). Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch "A lot of people face adversity by asking, "How would Jesus have dealt with this?" But that doesn't help me much, because I doubt Jesus ever had bad credit."