Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That damned Mid East testosterone will get you every time. John Sluss wrote: > Landis may have taken a little extra testosterone to stay in the race. > He just wanted to stay in the race afterall. If so he cheats. One can > make up a lot of excuses, but the bottom line is he was fired for > altering a photograph. > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Clayton McKee" <leica@rcmckee.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 2:28 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Altered Photo > > >> On 7 Aug 2006 at 13:40, John Sluss wrote: >> >>> Seems like this gentleman that altered the photograph was making an >>> editorial comment, or perhaps propaganda. His photograph should have >>> been on >>> the editorial page. >> >> >> I'm going to trot WAY out onto this limb here, with the same evidence >> everyone else on the list has (which is to say no evidence at all >> except this explanation makes sense to me personally), and say that I >> suspect this was probably more marketing than editorial. >> >> Look, the guy's a stringer for a major service in the middle of a >> MAJOR event. There are probably a couple of hundred other major >> shooters there, probably a fair number standing within a few meters >> of him when he got this, all shooting merrily away at the same >> skyline with the same smoke. And so one of two things happens... >> either before or after this shot, there's a moment or two when >> there's honestly more smoke in the sky -- and he missed the shot (but >> a bunch of the other guys with bigger cards and batteries got it) OR >> he knows everyone else has pretty much the same thing he's got. >> >> Thing is, if you're freelance, if you're in the same place as the >> bigfoots and you DON'T get stuff as good as they do (especially in >> situations like this that are probably fairly simple shots with >> comparatively low risk) you get no more phone calls, especially if >> you're tied to one of the major wires. And if you don't have BETTER >> than the staffers and the contract guys have, you don't sell much in >> today's world, because the OTHER guys' work is already paid for and >> you're an extra expense. >> >> So he's got to have at LEAST as good as theirs to keep his string, >> and better than theirs to get much in reuse in those conditions, and, >> well, what's a desperate, on-the-edge-of-nowhere stringer to do? >> "Well, it WAS like this two minutes later; nobody'll know..." >> >> And I suspect that if his laptop were better his shot probably >> wouldn't look that much different from everyone else's.... >> >> And nobody would know he was a fake and a liar. With the right >> connections he could even run for the presidency in most places... >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com >> Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com >> P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 >> Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >