Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I worked at a small town paper, several people expressed a similar sentiment, but they explained their fixation. The photo reproduction at the paper had a history of blocking up shadows. Black folk frequently had little or no facial detail, especially when grouped with white folk. I managed to change that shortcoming, and often got thanked for it. Ric Carter http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies On Jun 29, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Brian Reid wrote: > I have a good friend whose only criterion for judging quality of > photographs is how well the skin tones are rendered on people who > are not Caucasian. Identity is race, race is skin color, and so the > capture of a person's identity (and hence the quality of the > photograph) is entirely determined by how accurately it renders the > skin color. Nothing else matters.