Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's why today in today's PJ classroom there is the news photographer's bible--The AP photojournalism stylebook, to make sure that kind of market place anarchy couldn't happen again. I keep a copy of it myself, in the toilet, in case I run out of paper. Slobodan Dimitrov Bill Harting wrote: > > Yes, i had a parallel observation to BD's: how exciting it is to be doing > cutting edge photography, how it must have been for Capa and his colleagues, > breaking new ground, taking pictures that could not previously be taken with > faster lenses and smaller equipment. the evolution of photography was > inevitable and made inevitable by the kinds of results Capa and others > achieved, a new capability of seeing, of immediacy, of being there. the face > of the frightened soldier on the beach at Normandy would never have been > seen if not for the kind of technology that permitted Capa to slog ashore > with the troops, the achievement of that photo eclipsed whatever > shortcomings there may have been in technical perfection. > > today the pictures have been taken, digital is adding speed but not, I > think, capability or vision, and if we're working for a living taking > pictures we more than likely will be doing it digitally; the need to get > pictures to an editor in another hemisphere in a hour is not driven by the > photographer's own urgencies or preferences, but by the editor's > expectations. can you do it? if you can't we'll find someone else. > > the excitement of digital, if there is any, has to come from somewhere else. > > bh > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html