Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]God, I love art directors! ;-) Wouldn't you rather shoot the cover with digital just so the art director CAN'T crop a single eyeball out of that shot you composed so carefully? - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Rolfe Tessem Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:55 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] The new digital reality - bdcolen wrote: <snip> > > Oh - and Tuesday I spent shooting for a freelance story I'm doing for > a major U. S. newspaper, and by 5 p.m had 90 images on the web for the > photo editor to look at. Why 90 images? The editor wanted to see my > entire shoot to get a feel for how I work. > > Would the results of both these jobs look better if shot with Ms and > chrome, or Fuji color neg film? Probably. Would that difference be > evident in the magazine or newspaper? No way - and I'd still be > scanning the stuff from the Tuesday shoot. ;-) > > The point of all this? You tell me. ;-) The point of all this is that in the commercial world, it doesn't matter what is objectively "best"; what matters is whether it is "good enough". The business world is replete with examples, Beta versus VHS, Mac versus Windows, etc. The current state of photojournalism, at least in the U.S., is that for the inside of the magazine, anything goes. For the cover, most prefer film unless it it is a news cover, in which case anything goes :-). The reason they still like film for the cover, BTW, is that the art directors like to do a lot of cropping and don't feel that the size of the digital files gives them much leeway in that department. For newspapers, I think they are mostly all digital and with newsprint who can tell the difference anyway? - -- Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street (212) 463-0029 | New York, Ny 10014 - -- 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