Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]what did he "lie" about? he chose to visually talk about wrapping a fighter's hand in a visually dramatic manner. he chose not to talk about people standing in the background. had he a 75mm lens on the camera at that moment he'd very well may have made the photo without cropping a wider view. what do you know from the full frame color that you don't know from the cropped b&w? is that additional knowledge important to you or the story? Every documentary photographer and writer throughout history has chosen what to include and exclude from their stories. If you want the absolute, unvarnished truth, you need at least three video cameras running 24/7 everywhere then view it all unedited. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:26 PM, John Edwin Mason wrote: > It's photojournalism, Tina, not art photography. He's created a lie.