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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: ToneMonkey on July 30, 2008, 05:37:34 PM
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Just got this on an email and thought you might want to try it:
This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally.
The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision.
Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.
Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line.
THE SITUATION:
You are in England , York to be specific.
There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding.
This is a flood of biblical proportions.
You are a photo-journalist working for a major newspaper, and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless.
You're trying to shoot career-making photos.
There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing into the water.
Nature is unleashing all of its destructive fury.
THE TEST:
Suddenly, you see a man in the water.
He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris.
You move closer... Somehow, the man looks familiar...
You suddenly realize who it is... It's Gordon Brown! You notice that the raging waters are about to take him under forever. You have two options:
You can save the life of Gordon Brown or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the country's most powerful men!
THE QUESTION:
Here's the question, and please give an honest answer...
Would you select high contrast colour film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?
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That is absolutely terrible!!!! :x
I'm shocked!!!!!!
You made no mention of composition or lighting levels :D
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Nothing wins B&W for dramaticity! :D
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:lol:
I'd use my digital in full colour then make it black and white later on to see which looks best :P
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Should make a good photo either way now he's been taught how to smile :D
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/david_hughes/blog/2007/12/22/gordon_brown_learns_how_to_smile (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/david_hughes/blog/2007/12/22/gordon_brown_learns_how_to_smile)
once you got the photo you could then push him under with a big stick :rock:
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wtf is Gordon doing in York anyway. I say take a seat in the Three Legged Mare, grab a pint of Centurion's Ghost and just keep watching to make sure there is no danger that he can get out by himself. You may want to keep a pole around to push the bugger back in if he is getting out.
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wtf is Gordon doing in York anyway. I say take a seat in the Three Legged Mare, grab a pint of Centurion's Ghost and just keep watching to make sure there is no danger that he can get out by himself. You may want to keep a pole around to push the bugger back in if he is getting out.
He floated there, like a coconut.
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:lol:
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Why's everyone hating Gordon Brown? He seems pretty safe. Apparently he's not very good at his job, but even so - he seems nice.
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I heard he was good to his Mum.
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Why's everyone hating Gordon Brown? He seems pretty safe. Apparently he's not very good at his job, but even so - he seems nice.
relating to this, my answer would be
Call a $%&#ing election to see what kind of film to use.
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Why's everyone hating Gordon Brown? He seems pretty safe. Apparently he's not very good at his job, but even so - he seems nice.
Got nothing too much against the guy to be honest. Think he's had a rough ride since being PM. But he is ripe for taking the piss out of.
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I like Gordon =(
He made a $%&# up of the whole election thing, but I think it was a fair enough call. Find me anybody else that would call an election with a high chance of losing.
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my big problem with GB is how he seems to base policy decisions on what the tabloids say.
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Exactly
You know a government is finished when the manifesto is written by the Red Tops - the same thing happened to John Major's government.
GB has sunk already, no point in saving him.
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whatever film is in the camera. There isn't much time to swap the film. You can always modify the pictures later.
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That's a leap, we've not been told how much time there is, nor how long it takes us to swap the film. Although surely this should be a digital camera in this day and age?
I'm with the colour idea - at least you can modify it later in potatoshop.
Or better, record a movie, preferably with sound :)
Roo
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If you got sound you might do a little interview with questions like: "What's going through you right now? How do you feel? Is there anything you would like to say to your loved ones?"
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Unfortunately these days it's the media that actually has the bulk of the power.
There's nothing wrong with Brown particuarly - but then there was nothing much wrong with Blair either. They made some bad decisions, but that's what politics is about. It's pretty short sighted to believe that there's a "right" answer to most of the political problems that we face; there isn't, it's mostly about mitigating disaster!
The simple fact is that political/economic/cultural uncertainty sells papers. The papers (tabloids particularly, but also the broadsheets to some degree) can get away with printing the most incredible stories, and justifying it as freedom of the press. But the reality is that Murdoch and lord knows who else try to control what we see and have access to. And that includes politics.
I'm very cynical when it comes to the press. I think that we're in a nasty, cyclical trap, where we can't trust politicians, because they're so guarded against the press, and we can't trust the press because they have a circulation agenda. Not sure I can see a way out of that one.
Stop me before I break out the guitar and start singing Billy Bragg songs.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Mark.
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Is it Christmas already, damn, I'd better get shopping.
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I'm going to say several things about G.B.
He has had to follow the most overtly corrupt and litigious Labour government which has disillusioned the voting public.
I believe he has been bullied by the press into furthering the litigious horror of the Blair government, further alienating the youth of the nation and weakening his position in cabinet.
With regard to these two statements what sense in the world would possess someone to accept the job of G.B.'s replacement as leader of the labour party before a full on general election, as the press is pressurizing the labour party to do?
G.B. is the right man at the wrong time IMO. If he had risen to power sometime before Blair/Thatcher things might just have been more sensible.
G.B. is not a performing animal and so should not be forced to smile for the media, he should not be made to make pointless decisions demonizing the youth of the country on the assumption that the act of carrying a knife leads directly to the intention of using it as an offensive weapon and he is definitely a lesser evil than David Cameron (I hate that contemptible bar-steward.).
That does not mean I support the man in anything he does as socialism has died with the birth of Thatcherism and with its loss the labour and conservative parties have become a putrid, homogenized political slime; the two being the equivalent of the other.
I'd rather vote Lib-Dem on the grounds that they are different to the other two major parties.