Good one!

[vilakins]

Just posted to a mailing list I'm on. [evil grin]

This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. Please don't answer it without giving it some serious thought. The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make an important decision.

You're in Florida...In Miami, to be exact... There is chaos around you, caused by a hurricane and severe floods. This is a flood of major proportions. You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper caught in the middle of this great 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 showing all its destructive fury. You see a man in the water. He is fighting for his life, trying not to be swept away with the water and debris. You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar.

Suddenly, you know who it is... it's George W Bush!

At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him under, forever. You know for a fact that he will die if you don't do something quickly. You have only two options. You can save him or you can take the most dramatic photos of your life. You can save the life of George W Bush or you can shoot a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most powerful men.

Now, here's the question (and please give an honest answer):

The question

Would you select colour film, or go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

Comments

[kernezelda]

Classic simplicity, of course!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Nice artistic choice!

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Oh, my, that is evil.

*tries hard not to giggle*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I laughed out loud when I saw it.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!:D:D:D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

:-D That icon always makes me smile.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Never mind Chi, it's the mad Trek ones Astro and RSR are using that crack me up every single time8-)...

[labingi.livejournal.com]

That's classic! So what's the moral difference between color and black/white?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, point. I suppose they put that in to misdirect further but I've taken it out.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

Seeing the world in black and white generally simplifies the moral questions.

[labingi.livejournal.com]

I like that explanation! So if you photograph W. in black and white, you are, in fact, showing your latent affinity for his way of thinking.

(Okay, I'm way overthinking this, thus hopefully showing my lack of affinity for his way of thinking. Hm, I guess I'd shoot him in color.)

[kerravonsen]

Oh dear.

[kerr-avon.livejournal.com]

Black and white. That's how Dubya always saw everything anyway.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yep, even though he sometimes confuses the two.

[kerravongenius.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't get a prize. It's hardly news that the flood waters are contaminated with all manner of pollution. I suspect I would be fully occupied in holding his head under, anyway.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

*howls* Oh, that's the BEST answer!

[grumpoldusenaut.livejournal.com]

Black and white, of course. It's an image that must be preserved for posterity, and black and white still has much better archival qualities than colour does. (I assume from context that we're talking silver salts film here, not digital).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent response! Yes, I assumed film.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Tough choice... maybe black and white when he goes down for the first time, colour when he goes down for the second time...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Good idea! Cover both bases: the arty and the tabloids.

[alinewrites.livejournal.com]

ROTFL!

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'm too pragmatic for this. If he drowns, we just get Cheney, which doesn't seem like much of an improvement, so I yank him out, take some unflattering snaps as he's spewing out water, then head off to deliver leftwing tirades against the entire administration on all the TV channels who are queuing up to interview me about it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! I like it!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Black and white of course but if I had just a few seconds more I'd take a few colour shots with my digital