The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda Robert Capa Thought I would start this blog with a follow-on article to the quote from Robert Capa above...the article is from the NY Times Lens Blog http://nyti.ms/1Fmkr0b Debating the Rules and Ethics of Digital Photojournalism Significant questions have arisen after a large number of images were disqualified from this year's World Press Photo competitionbecause of excessive - and sometimes blatant - post-processing. After independent experts examined the images being considered for prizes in the final rounds, and presented their findings to the jury, 20 percent of the photos were disqualified by the judges. This was often because of significant addition or subtraction to the image content. These disqualifications - almost three times more than in last year's competition - have generated discussion about the standards in photojournalism for post processing and the alteration of images. Understandably, there is concern over the degree of manipulation in widely published images. Eric Joseph…a man with “passion for paper” "The World of Inkjet Paper ..The Print Matters" f8 Pasadena Salon visited Freestyle Photo this Saturday in place of our usual meeting at Jones Coffee. Eric Joseph, Senior Vice President of Business and Product Development for Freestyle led the seminar. Eric has worked at Freestyle for 38 years and has been their paper guru. He is the photographer’s interface with manufacturers of the papers we use every day in creating our art. We in Southern California are lucky to have Eric and his passion for paper as a resource and teacher. Today, and I suppose every time he gives this seminar, Eric speaks almost non-stop for 6 hours and fields questions he must have heard a million times before with grace and patience. It seemed that each sentence contained yet another bit of valuable information that even those of us who print regularly found helpful to both our understanding and practice of photographic printing. In addition he had printed samples of virtually every digital paper we could think of to see and touch. Eric, along with Paul Du Pont then went into the issues of color management and the added value of understanding the management elements of…monitor, printer and paper…and the intersection of all three in our final print. Paul too is another valuable resource both in his participation in f8 Pasadena and to photographers in LA and beyond. Finally, Eric printed some pictures from the group with various papers thus allowing the photographers to see his or her work on some “transformative” papers they might not have considered previously. There is no way to review all the “factoids” we learned today in this blog post.
So, for those who were not able to attend, Freestyle offers the same (and other) programs on a regular basis. Check out their website for further details. And all this was free!!!. He even had coffee and donuts waiting when we arrived. Thank you Eric and to Freestyle from those from f8 Pasadena Salon (and everybody) who attended today. Final f8 note: if you get a chance, email Freestyle or Eric directly to thank them for their continuing support of our photography community. [email protected] http://www.freestylephoto.biz
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