Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Squares and sabotage
From: "Ken Iisaka" <kiisaka@attglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:51:05 -0800

> The so-called "environmental portrait" is so over-used in photojournalism
it
> has become a cliche -- I should know, it has become a crutch in my work.
One
> that I struggle to break out of.

I am especilly tired of "environmental portraits" taken with a tilted lens,
so that the plane of focus is tilted, and only the eyes are in focus.  I
think the rage started with advertisement for Citibank, but they are so
rampant that I'm sick of them.

A couple of years ago in Japan were photos taken with super-long (>400mm)
lenses wide open (2.8 or 4.0)  The background became lumps of light that it
didn't matter where they were taken.  Still, the all-important photographers
chose exotic locations, and photos were accompanied with captions to
describe the location...  he he he