On 27 May 2013, at 11:13, Derby Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 27/05/2013 10:40 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 27 May 2013, at 00:07, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> David duChemin with some great questions. And a NIce Capture! :) >>>> >>>> http://davidduchemin.com/2013/05/nice-capture/ >>> Whenever someone writes something like "Photographs are made, they are not >>> captured" I have to stop reading because I know that if I carry on I'll >>> puke all over my expensive carpet. >> Argumentum ad Regurgitatum? >> >> At the risk of discolouring your floor coverings, I hope you gave it a >> go anyway. He has a lot more of interest to say beyond that. >> >> -- >> -bmw > > I agree with you Bruce, and with Bob. That "captured" line did send my > wankermeter to FSD. But to the rest of the post, I nodded. I did read the rest, and drafted a reply disagreeing, but didn't send it. Everything about his website and his writing screams "look at me!", whatever he says. His pictures are nice and he's been to some interesting places, but I don't know how he can call himself a humanitarian photographer based on what's there. I work for a humanitarian INGO and the photographers bring back very different stuff from his, which is more like travel brochure work. > What I do is dead simple. No craft about it. Camera is on auto everything (or > if it's the Leica, on A at most I ride the focus). So my aim is always, “Look > at this!”. I like comments about what you see, not what I did. Come to > Sydney. It's rather nice. > > Oops. I sound like Destination NSW. > > For reference, there is a big kerfuffle about a photo festival at the moment. > I really don't understand how Dupont signed up the tourism board and not > expect something like this. Boy, this is embarrassing. > > http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/censored--images-of-our-ugly-truths-natural-and-manmade-20130525-2n3s1.html Looks like they shot themselves in the foot. Both feet, in fact. Have they never seen reportage photography before? What were they expecting? B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
