Here's one knocking around the e-mailosphere...
- Read carefully, Don't skip ahead.
Honesty Question: 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 Florida, Miami 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 photojournalist 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 under the water. Nature is unleashing its entire destructive furor.THE TEST:
Suddenly you see a woman in the water. She is fighting for her life, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow the woman looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's Hillary Clinton! At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take her under forever. You have two options: You can save the life of Hillary Clinton or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most powerful and brilliant women.
- THE QUESTION: Here's the question, and please give an honest answer...
Would you select high contrast color film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?
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No question about it. Savin... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Maggie | November 26, 2007 10:28 AM | Score: 1 (9 votes cast)
No question about it. Saving Hillary would
be a priority, and I don not like nor trust
her.
1. Posted by Maggie | November 26, 2007 10:28 AM |
Score: 1 (9 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 10:28
2. Posted by SShiell | November 26, 2007 10:30 AM | Score: 0 (4 votes cast)
CLICK!
2. Posted by SShiell | November 26, 2007 10:30 AM |
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Posted on November 26, 2007 10:30
3. Posted by WildWillie | November 26, 2007 10:31 AM | Score: 2 (6 votes cast)
Kevin, that is funny, funny and funny. You got me. ww
3. Posted by WildWillie | November 26, 2007 10:31 AM |
Score: 2 (6 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 10:31
4. Posted by Ran | November 26, 2007 10:44 AM | Score: 0 (4 votes cast)
*calling Monica for a second opinion*
4. Posted by Ran | November 26, 2007 10:44 AM |
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Posted on November 26, 2007 10:44
5. Posted by mcg | November 26, 2007 10:46 AM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Looks like Maggie didn't read after the jump :)
5. Posted by mcg | November 26, 2007 10:46 AM |
Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 10:46
6. Posted by Oyster | November 26, 2007 10:51 AM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Man, ya got me too. As I was reading I thought I knew where it was heading and I instinctually thought "of course I would try and save her".
6. Posted by Oyster | November 26, 2007 10:51 AM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 10:51
7. Posted by stan25![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| November 26, 2007 10:54 AM | Score: 3 (7 votes cast)
I would use an iso 100 speed b&w film and push process it to iso 400 and use a red filter to enhance the drama. To hell with saving her.
7. Posted by stan25![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| November 26, 2007 10:54 AM |
Score: 3 (7 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 10:54
8. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | November 26, 2007 10:57 AM | Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
I use digital only now. Filters and color are 'post-production' options. ;)
8. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | November 26, 2007 10:57 AM |
Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 10:57
9. Posted by Jack Reacher | November 26, 2007 11:08 AM | Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
Why not infrared? That would be Pulitzer material for sure.
9. Posted by Jack Reacher | November 26, 2007 11:08 AM |
Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:08
10. Posted by Mycroft | November 26, 2007 11:10 AM | Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
Due to the inclement weather, I would be using my Nikonos V camera for that. It would take too long to change film, so I would have to go with the Ecktachrome 100 already loaded. However, in shooting film (f8 and be there), I could print it as a B&W shot later, if I wanted too.
10. Posted by Mycroft | November 26, 2007 11:10 AM |
Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:10
11. Posted by LaMedusa | November 26, 2007 11:13 AM | Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
Take the picture with whatever was in the camera first. Then, if there was time, switch to black and white.
11. Posted by LaMedusa | November 26, 2007 11:13 AM |
Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:13
12. Posted by GianiD | November 26, 2007 11:14 AM | Score: -1 (5 votes cast)
Since Hildebeat has so much trouble 'going down', Id throw her a cinder block or 2 to hang on to.
12. Posted by GianiD | November 26, 2007 11:14 AM |
Score: -1 (5 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:14
13. Posted by La Mano | November 26, 2007 11:21 AM | Score: 0 (4 votes cast)
Gotta be FULL COLOR!
13. Posted by La Mano | November 26, 2007 11:21 AM |
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Posted on November 26, 2007 11:21
14. Posted by 914 | November 26, 2007 11:38 AM | Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
Apparently not to brilliant or powerful is She?
Black and white colors make flooding dirty waters and mud much more traumatic so.. B&W
14. Posted by 914 | November 26, 2007 11:38 AM |
Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:38
15. Posted by mojo | November 26, 2007 11:42 AM | Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
The only question: what shutter speed?
15. Posted by mojo | November 26, 2007 11:42 AM |
Score: 1 (5 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:42
16. Posted by lisa | November 26, 2007 11:43 AM | Score: 0 (4 votes cast)
Question--Is she wearing the "asbestos" pantsuit?
16. Posted by lisa | November 26, 2007 11:43 AM |
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Posted on November 26, 2007 11:43
17. Posted by 914 | November 26, 2007 11:46 AM | Score: 0 (4 votes cast)
If anyone of You would choose to try and rescue Her remember to consult with Her advisors/Bill and the ACLU first.
Remember what happened to Lazio for merely trying to hand Her a piece of paper..be careful in laying hands on the "princess".
17. Posted by 914 | November 26, 2007 11:46 AM |
Score: 0 (4 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:46
18. Posted by jpm100 | November 26, 2007 11:49 AM | Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
Sorry but this is a trick question.
There's an old test, if the water accepted the woman and she sank and drowned, she was innocent. If a woman floated on water and didn't drown, the water was rejecting her and she was a witch.
Therefore, Hillary can't drown. Q.E.D.
18. Posted by jpm100 | November 26, 2007 11:49 AM |
Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:49
19. Posted by Maggie | November 26, 2007 11:53 AM | Score: 0 (4 votes cast)
You're right, I didn't even see it until after
the fact. :)
19. Posted by Maggie | November 26, 2007 11:53 AM |
Score: 0 (4 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 11:53
20. Posted by Jason | November 26, 2007 12:27 PM | Score: 0 (4 votes cast)
Easy... I shoot Digital/RAW I can decide later which looks better... Allows me to get a couple extra shots...
20. Posted by Jason | November 26, 2007 12:27 PM |
Score: 0 (4 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 12:27
21. Posted by Son Of The Godfather | November 26, 2007 12:32 PM | Score: 2 (6 votes cast)
Well, my digital sucks up battery power pretty quickly... Are there some interesting palm trees I could photograph?
21. Posted by Son Of The Godfather | November 26, 2007 12:32 PM |
Score: 2 (6 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 12:32
22. Posted by Gmac | November 26, 2007 12:48 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
B&W ftw.
My Nikon F is always loaded with Tri-X 400 for those moments when a digital camera just can't perform the job. I'd shoot F8 1/250 with my 80mm to capture that last dramatic look of defeat. In fact, I'd take as many shots as I could before she disappeared just to cover the event.
More is better just in case she was flipping me off because I'd sure as hell be waving goodbye between shoots, probably like this .!..
22. Posted by Gmac | November 26, 2007 12:48 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 12:48
23. Posted by stan25![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| November 26, 2007 12:49 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
I would use a shutter speed of 125 and f16 to take the shot
23. Posted by stan25![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| November 26, 2007 12:49 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 12:49
24. Posted by GianiD | November 26, 2007 1:03 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
You'd use an m16 to take the shot??
24. Posted by GianiD | November 26, 2007 1:03 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 13:03
25. Posted by Eric | November 26, 2007 1:12 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
The problem is, once she goes under you really miss the rest of the story.
So I would use an underwater camera, because the real Pulitzer prize winning picture is capturing the last air bubble escaping.
25. Posted by Eric | November 26, 2007 1:12 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 13:12
26. Posted by Mikey60 | November 26, 2007 1:15 PM | Score: 3 (7 votes cast)
This is an impossible situation and purely hypothetical. Of course you would not have to make a decision, because with that much water, she would have melted long before then.
26. Posted by Mikey60 | November 26, 2007 1:15 PM |
Score: 3 (7 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 13:15
27. Posted by Peter F. | November 26, 2007 3:06 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
LOL.
Black and white. It's more dramatic! I might even quickly switch the digital camera over to get a shot in sepia tone, if there was time before she went under!
(I love the humorless turd who went through here and voted negatively on all the posts. It's a joke. Lighten up, Francis.)
27. Posted by Peter F. | November 26, 2007 3:06 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 15:06
28. Posted by Jim Addison | November 26, 2007 3:19 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Even before the jump, it was a trick question . . . "You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper" . . .
Naturally, such a person isn't going to try to save anyone, because you can't save someone and take a prize-winning photo at the same time.
28. Posted by Jim Addison | November 26, 2007 3:19 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 15:19
29. Posted by Wanderlust | November 26, 2007 4:05 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Use a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III with EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM telephoto lens, shooting RAW images only; camera set to ISO 100. From there, Adobe Photoshop (for post production items such as color and enhancement) is your friend.
And smell the sweetness of that Pulitzer :)
29. Posted by Wanderlust | November 26, 2007 4:05 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 16:05
30. Posted by JFO | November 26, 2007 4:14 PM | Score: -9 (9 votes cast)
Excuse me but aren't you (wing)nuts the same goofballs who howl, holler, whine, scream, pout. froth at the mouth, drivel, dribble, gnash your teeth and pretty much poop your pants over what you call Bush Derangement Syndrome.
And this is the stuff you 2nd graders come up with? Thank God almighty you folks run nothing because you stand for nothing.
30. Posted by JFO | November 26, 2007 4:14 PM |
Score: -9 (9 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 16:14
31. Posted by Kat | November 26, 2007 4:25 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
JFO- lighten up. I remember this same joke from a few years ago with Dubya as the non-swimmer. You are suffering from a classic case of projection, it is YOU who froth with BDS.
31. Posted by Kat | November 26, 2007 4:25 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 16:25
32. Posted by 914 | November 26, 2007 4:28 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Eric
"So I would use an underwater camera, because the real prize winning pulitzer picture is capturing the last air bubble escaping."
Shade's of Chappaquiddick
32. Posted by 914 | November 26, 2007 4:28 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 16:28
33. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | November 26, 2007 5:34 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Similar situation. Bill and Hillary take a boat ride. The boat capsizes. Who gets saved?
The United States of America.
33. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | November 26, 2007 5:34 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 17:34
34. Posted by Scrapiron | November 26, 2007 6:47 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Shrillary is now officially a joke. Recent polls indicate that any of the top 5 republicans will beat her. Did someone fall on their head and wake up with a dazzling light telling them this woman has been a criminal all of her adult life. NY, NY, where the he** are your brains? Too dense to see Shrillary coming and too dense to see 9-11 coming.
34. Posted by Scrapiron | November 26, 2007 6:47 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 18:47
35. Posted by HughS | November 26, 2007 6:53 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Bilal Hussein would have saved Hillary and photo shopped the pic. See, you can have your cake and eat it too if you are a terrorist sympathizer working for the AP. And he could have done it all from Iraq.
35. Posted by HughS | November 26, 2007 6:53 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 18:53
36. Posted by LaMedusa | November 26, 2007 8:05 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
33. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | November 26, 2007 5:34 PM
Oh, man! LMAO! Priceless!
36. Posted by LaMedusa | November 26, 2007 8:05 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 26, 2007 20:05
37. Posted by jefferson101 | November 26, 2007 9:56 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
No, no, people.
The real question is not what film or F-Stop you use.
The real question is this:
"Do you take the pictures, or throw her your camera, hoping that she will think it's a life ring and go down quicker?"
Pulitzer, or certainty? The choice is yours!
Heh.
Heh
37. Posted by jefferson101 | November 26, 2007 9:56 PM |
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Posted on November 26, 2007 21:56
38. Posted by Wanderlust | November 27, 2007 4:01 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
JFO, get off your high horse: the point of the "joke" was to bash the media's latest spin on just being there to document things, regardless of who gets hurt. We would have been tongue in cheek about the same kinds of responses (pretending to be professional photogs a la Bilal Hussein) who just "get the story".
In WWII, and Korea, American press photographers would have stopped to help save American GI's lives on the battlefield if they had the chance. From Vietnam on, they first pretended to be apolitical; and then in Iraq this time around, they openly sided with terrorists.
/CNN, call your office
38. Posted by Wanderlust | November 27, 2007 4:01 AM |
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Posted on November 27, 2007 04:01