[Leica] re: photos standing on their own

["kyle cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>]

>>Actually, he has set it up. His daughter is going away to school and he is
>>going to shoot one picture a day until she leaves. With that in mind, the
>>shots should be found shots, not orchestrated shots, because there is an
>>element of documentation taking place.
>
what b.d. was saying (i believe) is that the photo doesn't stand on it's own
without the caption.

this is one of the most important rules that i never learned. my photo
teachers
would dismiss my entries because without telling a backstory (it's a guy
who's
paralized, and see, he's standing up!") it's just a picture of a person.

"tell with the picture, not with the mouth"

you know how it looks when it's good -- a sweaty, crying football player
kneeling
on a field -- a look of incredible dejection and sorry on his face -- while
in the
background team members wearing a different color jerseyare jubuliantly
carrying
another player away on their shoulders popping champaign corks... compared
to
a photograph of the same guy in street clothes buying a cheese burger with
the
caption "joe smith just lost the superbowl by missing an 8 yard field goal.
he
is very sad and is buying a cheeseburger on his way home." one tells the
story,
the other has to have the story tagged on at the end.

> For give me for being an old grump - but - in some ways, the comments
people
> have made about the need to separate the hair from the background are
minor
> compared to the caption issue. What this is is a nice informal shot of a
> pretty young girl. No matter what you do, it does not and will not have
> anything to do with college admissions, decision making, etc. etc. -
except
> to you. If you wanted to tell a story about the call, you needed to set
> something up



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