Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/30/2005 5:51:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time, firkin@ncable.net.au writes: , but taking out or adding elements, or selectively > blurring them, is strictly Verboten. I may have told this story before, but here goes anyhow. Charles Bennett was with the New Orleans Times-Picayune from the forties until the sixties. He told us several stories of the days when there actually were competing newspapers in the US. The one I liked best was about this guy who would jump right in the middle of grip-and-grin shots and ribbon cuttings. His only claim to fame was the number of times he had been in the paper. Charlie said they finally got disgusted with that, and shot an image of a palm tree that they would insert over the guy before engraving. Another incident was a fairly prominent guy passed away, and they couldn't find a shot of him, so they bribed an assistant at the coroner's office, propped the dead guy up at a desk, took a shot, then when they got back and made a print, painted his eyes open. Bur collection at the University has a lot of old newspaper shots. In those, busy backgrounds were routinely painted out. So the range of what might be permissible as being able to do in a darkroom is probably much wider than many of us imagine. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish