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Subject: [Leica] Another Altered Photo
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Mon Aug 7 11:54:45 2006
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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
>>
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