Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/19

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Subject: [Leica] Photojournalists and permission
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue Apr 19 16:04:22 2005
References: <00c101c544fd$f7e0d9d0$6501a8c0@ccapr.com>

B. D. Colen wrote:

> Let's be straight here - if you ask permission to shoot, you are, in
> effect, posing, because you have told the person that you intend to take
> a photograph, and therefore have turned what would have been a candid
> photo of a natural moment into a photo session with an aware,
> specifically cooperating subject. This is not to say that such photos
> are "bad," but simply to point out that the former and the latter are
> two very different things.

call it posing or call it being aware 
that a photo is going to be  taken.... 
boils down to the same thing...

do you want to take photos of the way 
people are, or the way they want to 
appear...  ?

Steve


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Luis Miguel Casta?eda
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:16 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Photojournalists and permission
> 
> 
> On 19 de abr de 2005, at 17:33, Karen Nakamura wrote:
> 
> 
>>I hold myself to a pretty high standard.
> 
> 
> If I want to shoot, lets say, someone in their workplace, I ask; if I'm 
> shooting a celebration in the street, or a fair market, I don't.  More 
> than standards this is a matter of education.
> 
> Posing, directing, etc are other wars.
> 
> 
> Saludos
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Replies: Reply from mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura) ([Leica] Photojournalists and permission)
In reply to: Message from bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Photojournalists and permission)