> -----Original Message----- > From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > My question to the list: Should this photo have been taken?
Yes. At least there's nothing to prevent you from taking it. I personally have no issue with sneaked shots. It's been done as long as there have been cameras to do it. > Do you > think it is overly critical of the subject or sympathetic, > or perhaps > judgmental? Well...I think it's just a picture, but I infer some judgment on your part. The title, the menu, the 2 fisted drinking, and above all the facial expression imply a judgment - this lady has an eating problem. But so what? We're allowed to make judgments. We're photographers, we do it when we shoot and again when we edit. It's part of the deal. > See for yourself, and share your thoughts: Having said that it's perfectly within your right to take the shot, I doesn't work for me. I think the composition is too tight on the right, and her facial expression makes it look like an ill-timed grab. Of course, that's just my judgment and others may, and do, differ. So, how did you sneak it? Did you actually hide the camera or did you do the old "I'm just checking the dials, oops, I shot off a frame, I wish I knew how this thing worked" routine? > What makes me uncomfortable, or hesitant to show this > photo, is that it is > something of a self-portrait. There are times when I'm not > comfortable with > myself (regardless of how I look), and since taking this > picture, I've wrestled > with that discomfort a few times. I sympathize, but this sort of thing leads to bad editing. Investing too much of yourself in your work gives you a biased view...good editing requires as much of an objective eye as can be mustered. Or mustard. Ha. tv
