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beatrice_otter ([personal profile] beatrice_otter) wrote 2008-09-19 01:21 pm (UTC)

My parents are two of the best professional photographers in Oregon, and have been since before I was born. I grew up in the studio; although I've never been very good at actually creating photographic art, I know a lot about photography and what it's like to be a photographer and about photography. I would say that most top-level professional photographers--the successful ones, the ones smart enough and dedicated enough to make it long-term--would agree with Jimmy about the perfect shot, because that's the drive that keeps you going out and doing new stuff, not just sitting in your studio admiring your work or doing the same thing over and over and over. So I can't really take credit for the idea of how I dealt with "the perfect shot," although the execution of it was all me.

Jameson runs a much different paper than the Daily Planet. Jameson's paper is (from the movies) mostly a tabloid. Lowest common denominator, cheap, sensationalism is everything. Whereas the Daily Planet is the New York Times, basically, and while every paper needs attention-grabbing headlines (and hence will never be completely free from sensationalism), its rep is built on having substance to it. It has to appeal to a broad range of people on a broad range of issues. That includes art and photography. I don't think Perry would want that style as the main style of the newspaper, or even in regular stories very often (it might detract from the stories instead of add to them, more difficult to appreciate/understand, doesn't fit well with low-quality newspaper printing, lots of reasons). But as something special, yeah, I can see it. Because in the digital page newspapers can't rest on their laurels, either.

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