Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Feb 11, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > > Ric, I think you missed my point. I'm not saying they aren't good & > great photographs, they are. > I guess I did. When I read the following, I thought you were talking about the contest winners: > He arrives, there are bodies lying all over the place, dying kids > with bloated bodies and great big eyes starving to death. All he > has to do is set his camera's on auto everything, load new rolls, > stand in one spot, close his eyes and make a 360 pirouette while > the motor drive zings away! > > And with 3 - 4 cameras all shot the same fashion he can go back > with 120+ negatives of incredible disaster! And win the World Press > Photo Award! --------------------------- > > Quite frankly sports photography takes ten times the ability and > reflexes to capture the quick flashing moments of an athlete during > competition. Certainly compared to those of a disaster where you > have all the time in the world to take pictures. > Better reflexes? Sometimes, but the best news shots of the winners show equal reflex to action in my opinion. (The head kick, the man over the bomb victim, the outreached hand of the car bomb victim, placement of the chopper in the earthquake aftermath, et al) Better eye? I doubt it. > As far as triviality in content? That's a crock simply because the > subjects aren't being compared to decide the ultimate winner. > Unto each his own, but in my mind, eye and heart, a white chick in a bathing suit banging her head on a diving board is trivial content when viewed alongside a screaming Iraqi child bloodied when her parents were killed by US soldiers. As always, no authority, just my opinion. Ric Carter http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies