Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think the conversion is important and the lines should be redrawn in the digital-age, so comparisons with antiquated processes are interesting but not appropriate. Really what was missing from the image was a good photographer in the sense that he probably shot 500 haphazard images from an outsiders perspective not able to get close enough and then tried to figure out later how to get a good photograph. At 03:38 PM 3/5/2010, you wrote: >Personally I don't see any photo sins in this case. >I see the cropped, worked, black and white as a stronger photograph >than the un-cropped color original. >No "lie" of any significance has been told. >This is so totally different than adding missiles to a launch photo; >or removing someone from a historically important socio/political >document. > >I don't see it as a step down a slippery slope; >but rather use some common sense >and knowledge of photographic history. > >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 2:09 PM, John Edwin Mason wrote: > >>>This stuff is getting crazy >> >>><http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/behind-35/> >> >>What's crazy is the way that the raw file was altered to radically >>alter the feel and meaning of the scene. The missing sneaker is >>the least of the photo's sins: >> >>http://www.pdnpulse.com/2010/03/yet-another-photo-doctoring- scandal.html >> >>http://bit.ly/bYEjtq >> >>--John >> >>****************************** >>John Edwin Mason, Photography: >>http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com >>Charlottesville and Cape Town >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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