Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Street photography moved to the football field. A lot of environment :) On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Steve Unsworth wrote: > Hmmm, the sports shots must have been 'interesting' ;-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of > LRZeitlin@aol.com > Sent: 01 August 2003 03:34 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Re: Picture alteration > > > The extreme case: > > As a young photojournalist, I worked for a photo editor who told me he would > > never publish a picture taken with anything but a "normal" lens unless it > was > absolutely necessary. He believed that the role of the photographer was > transport the reader to the location in which the event occured and present > the > scene as if it could be directly viewed. The camera was the reader's eyeball > > surrogate. Any perspective distortion was editorializing, an unforgivable > sin in > newspaper work. > > Larry Z > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html