[Leica] NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE & PHOTOGRAPHY.

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Ted,

Well stated.  Thanks.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE & PHOTOGRAPHY.


> Jim Nichols ASKED:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE & PHOTOGRAPHY.
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> Ted,
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> This starts one thinking.  At what point does one morph from photographer 
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> PhotoShop artist?<<<<<<<<<
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> Hi Jim,
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> I surely don't know. Me I'm staying just as I've been for near 60 years 
> now,
> a plain ordinary old fashion "documenting photojournalist" for a better
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> Photoshop for me is only a simple replacement of working in wet trays and
> darkroom. What you see in my photographs is about as truthful as it can 
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> Maybe a touch of burning in a sky no different than wet darkroom 
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> But the twisting, turning, manipulating and all the other phony add on 
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> to "make a photograph" of so called artistry by the new wave PHSP artists,
> has absolutely nothing to do with observing, shooting and hoping you've
> caught the perfect moment.
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> The manipulators are what they are, merely PhotoShop techie operators 
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> the medium of photography. But they are not photographers! Certainly what
> they turn out is hardly recognized as a "pure photographic moment!"
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> A Photojournalist shows truth with the moment captured, at least that's 
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> my way all these years. The PHSP artist may start out with some kind of
> exposure, but ends up with a purely unrecognizable image of nothing like 
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> original. We, photojournalists, shoot for pure reality, not what's
> manipulated into the scene off a computer screen.
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> When does this "morphing take place?"  Possibly when one realizes they've
> shot crappy images and have to save their ass by mucking about using
> PhotoShop to make their screw up work in some fashion to hide their
> inability to be a photographer first!
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> What I really do know is, the day I feel I'm fiddling things into a scene
> and changing what I reacted to is the day I quit!
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