Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris, Like National Geographic in the old days? 30 rolls per published photograph or some such ratio? Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Chris Saganich <chs2018 at med.cornell.edu>wrote: > > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >