Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's called the cornflake factor. How will readers react to such a photo while eating their cornflakes. Sometimes, you make them puke anyway. But you pick your battles. And you make a very good point. What WAS the main point of the photo. The fact her legs were blown off, or that she was being saved? Or both? on 11/7/03 1:02 AM, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabinergroup.com wrote: > The picture with the maimed legless girls legs cropped out was > "softened" in my words for it's local audience by cutting bloody stumps > out. Bloody stumps just don't appear on many papers covers. I"m sure > this happens all the time. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com "Cartoons don't have any deep meaning. They're just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh." - Homer Simpson - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html