Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gary, He came across to me as not totally joking about the guitar thing as he said something like "Its not what it used to be". To me it is not the same at all...the news guys here are as likely to carry a video camera as a still camera...that aint photojournalism! Moving pictures do not count. ;) Seriously...what it takes to tell a story in one frame of a still image and what it takes to do so with video are very different things and not everyone is good at both. This talk made remember old days doing news/sports and watching TV Last night when the UT women won the NCAA title...in 1993 I covered the womens title game in Atlanta for UPI when Texas Tech won. In reading the news story about the UT win this morning I saw that this young lady: http://www.pbase.com/2plus2/image/32936996 http://www.pbase.com/2plus2/image/32936861 Still holds the record for the most points scored in a NCAA tournament with 177 points total, she scored 47 points in the title game alone! Those were good times and in a way I miss those days, but with the status and shape of news photography today I'd not go into it again...it just is not the same. Gary Pinkerton wrote: > Hi Tina > At the Brentwood Camera Club meeting last week, a young photog asked Harry > Benson if he had any advice for the upcoming photojournalists. Mr. Benson > replied with something like "maybe get a guitar". He followed up with a > serious reply to start small [local newspaper] and work your way up if > possible. > Mr. Benson was a lot of fun, and some great work was shown. > GaryP -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://www.mcclary.net/blog