Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But, my point is, much photojournalism is in B&W and every photojournalist chooses which lens to use. I don't agree with his removing the foot, but photojournalism can be black and white and cropped. That has always been acceptable. So how is it anymore a lie than any photo that is a B&W representation of a scene that took place in color? Tina On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:26 PM, John Edwin Mason <profmason at yahoo.com>wrote: > > But don't we do that with choice of film and processing, too? The actual > > scene would have been in color but we choose to portray it in B&W, with a > > particular lens, and processing - whether it's digital or film? > > It's photojournalism, Tina, not art photography. He's created a lie. > > > http://bit.ly/bYEjtq > > --John > > ****************************** > John Edwin Mason, Photography: > http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com > Charlottesville and Cape Town > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com