Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> So what we have going in this discussion is a few things , photojournalists, > their actions and effect, TV and coverage staged or otherwise and setting up > still pictures supposedly demonstrating "real life moments." Right or > wrong. Ted, You have summed it up very succinctly. And it is your third point that was the starting point, about whether it makes any difference to set up, or stage, a still picture "real life moment." The consensus seems to be defintely on the side of deciding that it makes a great deal of difference whether a still picture that is supposed to be a candid or a documentary shot has actually been staged, or directed, by the photographer. Your experiences in the OR certainly go along with that: you disappear into the woodwork and nobody in the pictures, in the room, is aware of your taking pictures, and you do not direct or stage anything. Your pictures are authentic, candid documents of what happened there, no more, no less. Bob - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html