Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:38 PM 9/16/2008, you wrote: >Are your wedding pictures "neutral," or do you try to present your >subjects in a special and positive manner? > >Total honesty might not go over all that well;^) > >Ric Jill Greenberg calls herself the Manipulator on her own website. That's fine for "art" but not so good for photojournalism. Patrick Schneider was fired from the Charlotte Observer for increasing the saturation on a photo of firemen fighting a fire. Jill Greenberg deliberately used unflattering lighting and editing, even adding a monkey to a photo, to portray McCain in a biased way. If she wants to do that for "art", that's her prerogative, but it has no place on the cover of the Atlantic Monthly unless they are covering her art exhibit. It's certainly not photojournalism. There have been too many blurring of the lines lately and this is the worst I've seen. Tina Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com