Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D.: >I'm not suggesting that the photographer shouldn't >be able to shoot the scene as he or she 'sees' it - only that what is >captured in that frame, that which is frozen, be true to what the >photographer saw - that nothing be added or taken out after the fact. >But then I'm applying photo journalistic or documentary standards, and >not all photography is governed by those standards. ;-) I'd suggest that a print is true to journalistic standards if the final print is pretty much a "straight" print without much--if any--manipulation. Burning/dodging can be used to create different truths from the same negative. (Not to exclude digital capture. Substitute RAW file for negative, if you will.) If you move a pyramid so that it fits into the frame better, is that wrong? I could argue that the scene with the moved pyramid might be closer to what a photographer "saw"...just without the constraints imposed by a 24x36 mm frame. -- Eric http://canid.com/