Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/22

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Subject: [Leica] dodging & burning vs leicas
From: "kyle cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:11:05 -0700

>My wife was watching and after seeing him dodging and altering the negs,
>and hearing the narrator say that the finished product was highly
>manipulated and often much different than the original subject, which if
>seen as taken might be quite plain and boring.
>
>She then commented, "I am disappointed.  I don't think that's right --
>after all, you keep telling me you wanted the Leica and that wonderful
>lens so your photos would have that beautiful glow and be truly
>representative of what you saw.  Explain this to me!"
>
>Help!!!  ;-)
>
>Ted in Olalla

easy ted. artists don't merely represent the world around them, they change
it to fit their view. as we've seen in the past, a forensic photographer or
a crime scene photographer or many types of scientific photographers need to
represent what is actually there. this goes for news photographers as well.
adams was none of those. he was an artist who happened to use a camera. the
final image was manipulated to show it "as it should have been" not as it
was.

kc



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