Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's a great assessment. Contrast these, which to me still are great photos - to David's China photos for example. I think the Nachtway photo satisfies your Kobayashi Maru critieria, but then he's old school... On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net>wrote: > It's pedestrian at best. > That's the problem when content is reduced to composition only. It's > definitely a teaching issue at the college level. > Most of these kids are taught with the AP style sheet as their main text > book. Doesn't leave much wiggle room for substantive personal development. > Though if you sat in on one of those classes, they are constantly hammered > about integrity in journalism. It's unfortunately being done in an > decontextualized sort of manner. > I've yet to see a Kobayashi Maru exercise on what to do in problematic > situations. It's troublesome, because in many cases, they are being made to > write deep captions, on site with computer/cellular downloads, within > minutes of events. When ones considers how poorly educated they are, and in > spite of a high technical proficiency, their lack of a foundational > knowledge of the events around them will eventually create serious problems > for researchers in this period. > sd > > -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // b: http://richardfman.wordpress.com