[Leica] The Truth : Was "B.D. PAW"

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

P2CON@aol.com wrote:

> B.D., I think you missed my point and perhaps I missed Ted's point also.  
> I 
> was mearly pointing out that most of us quite often do not "tell the 
> truth" 
> each time we press the shutter button.  The simple act of using B&W 
> film/digital 
> is a deviation from the truth.  You might even say that the use of Velvia 
> strays from the truth.  I was simply pulling Ted's chain for making the 
> claim that 
> the truth exists every time he presses the shutter release.  I know that 
> he 
> is very experienced at producing the visual effect he wants in his 
> photographs, 
> but I maintain that he, and you, and I, control what "truth" we print or 
> project, either by exposure control or thru post processing.
> 
> Regards, Paul Connet

Paul, might I add, that since all of 
photography is by definition 
"cropping".... the "truth" turns on 
"what we select to show , and  what we 
choose to leave out"...

Steve
> 
> In a message dated 3/25/2005 2:22:47 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> bdcolen@earthlink.net writes:
> <<There's a difference, Paul, between the fact that different
> photographers will see and capture a scene differently, and creating an
> image afterwards that bears no relation to the scene. What Ted does, or
> what any of us do, is see what's before us, and then do our best to
> capture it. 
> 
> What someone does who puts together parts of different images is create
> from scraps an image that exists only in his or her mind - like the
> painter who envisions something no one has ever seen and then puts it on
> canvas.
> 
> B. D >>
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