Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You know what I mean. ;-p ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Altered Photo > That damned Mid East testosterone will get you every time. > > John Sluss wrote: > >> Landis may have taken a little extra testosterone to stay in the race. He >> just wanted to stay in the race afterall. If so he cheats. One can make >> up a lot of excuses, but the bottom line is he was fired for altering a >> photograph. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Clayton McKee" <leica@rcmckee.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 2:28 PM >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Altered Photo >> >> >>> On 7 Aug 2006 at 13:40, John Sluss wrote: >>> >>>> Seems like this gentleman that altered the photograph was making an >>>> editorial comment, or perhaps propaganda. His photograph should have >>>> been on >>>> the editorial page. >>> >>> >>> I'm going to trot WAY out onto this limb here, with the same evidence >>> everyone else on the list has (which is to say no evidence at all >>> except this explanation makes sense to me personally), and say that I >>> suspect this was probably more marketing than editorial. >>> >>> Look, the guy's a stringer for a major service in the middle of a >>> MAJOR event. There are probably a couple of hundred other major >>> shooters there, probably a fair number standing within a few meters >>> of him when he got this, all shooting merrily away at the same >>> skyline with the same smoke. And so one of two things happens... >>> either before or after this shot, there's a moment or two when >>> there's honestly more smoke in the sky -- and he missed the shot (but >>> a bunch of the other guys with bigger cards and batteries got it) OR >>> he knows everyone else has pretty much the same thing he's got. >>> >>> Thing is, if you're freelance, if you're in the same place as the >>> bigfoots and you DON'T get stuff as good as they do (especially in >>> situations like this that are probably fairly simple shots with >>> comparatively low risk) you get no more phone calls, especially if >>> you're tied to one of the major wires. And if you don't have BETTER >>> than the staffers and the contract guys have, you don't sell much in >>> today's world, because the OTHER guys' work is already paid for and >>> you're an extra expense. >>> >>> So he's got to have at LEAST as good as theirs to keep his string, >>> and better than theirs to get much in reuse in those conditions, and, >>> well, what's a desperate, on-the-edge-of-nowhere stringer to do? >>> "Well, it WAS like this two minutes later; nobody'll know..." >>> >>> And I suspect that if his laptop were better his shot probably >>> wouldn't look that much different from everyone else's.... >>> >>> And nobody would know he was a fake and a liar. With the right >>> connections he could even run for the presidency in most places... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com >>> Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com >>> P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 >>> Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >