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pullandbang

DK32 wrote: »

More photo's in sequence can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dk400d/sets/72157626409238619/with/5635147263/

Dan is it my screen or is there something funny going on in the blacks in those shots? I'm seeing lots of white "snow" in all the shadow areas.

smelltheglove

Promac wrote: »

And that's what I was saying earlier! It's all for a commercial product, just like a magazine - what's the real difference between an advertisement in a magazine (which is more the reason the magazine is produced at all - sales are totally secondary) and a news item in a newspaper? The more popular the newspaper the more they can charge for ads (just like the magazine) and the more papers they sell. The better the news, the better the item, the better the paper, etc. It's totally just interpretation, in my opinion anyway.

A magazine, beinga commercial product commissions stories and photos for the product, i.e. a make up review as seen in most or a fashion shoot.

A paper on the other hand reports (or is meant to) the truth of what is going on in the world. Yes they sell space for advertisements as this is how they mainly fund their work but they do not commission accidents and criminal activity, they just report on them, worlds apart in my opinion.

Deleted User wrote: »

I take Smelltheglove's photo, and I think she looks amazing in it

Oh wow KKV can I see it....?

Promac

What about when the paper sends a photographer to a location on the assumption that there will be something newsworthy there, like a busy day at the courts? It's not reporting news, it's looking for it. It's tasking the photographer with coming back with a set of images of people going to court, just like tasking him/her with producing a set of images of someone playing tennis or wearing a bikini or whatever.

smelltheglove

smelltheglove wrote: »

Oh wow KKV can I see it....?

Not until you buy it!

PCPhoto

Promac wrote: »

What about when the paper sends a photographer to a location on the assumption that there will be something newsworthy there, like a busy day at the courts? It's not reporting news, it's looking for it. It's tasking the photographer with coming back with a set of images of people going to court, just like tasking him/her with producing a set of images of someone playing tennis or wearing a bikini or whatever.

oh no you didnt !!

if a paper sent someone to the courts there is no guarantee that they will find a story and its the reporter who has to find the story the photographer has to see the person involved and get an image, reporters do spend time down at the courts and not get a story (at least in the Four Courts) and recently its been very quiet pictorially.

The problem with court images is that the newspapers have a set of rules which the photographer must adhere to....and failure to do this could result in a liable action taken against the photographer/newspaper. (This has happened in the recent past and has cost hundreds of thousands of euro.... who said there wasn't any pressure involved in court photography)

As regards a newspaper sending a photographer to a location "on the assumption that there will be something newsworthy" .... this happens almost every day, I've been sent to various locations and told just stay there until you get the pic....its usually not the photographers choice...its the picdesk.

there is still no guarantee that they will get a pic or even a story infact its more than likely they will goto an area and a news story will break in a different area.

Promac

PCPhoto wrote: »

oh no you didnt !!

Lol ok

I think we've milked this cow now so cheers for the co-derailment lads.

DK32

pullandbang wrote: »

Dan is it my screen or is there something funny going on in the blacks in those shots? I'm seeing lots of white "snow" in all the shadow areas.

I'm not seeing that myself mate. Anyone else?

Ghost Train

Might be news worthy

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056265093

Also bomb scare at Connelly station
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056265128

The_Snapper

Brilliant thread, well done to all. Teamwork is what it's all about and it worked here..