Remember The National Enquirer

I have a friend whose wife bought the enquirer for awhile. Headlines were good for a laugh, but she had ulterior motives. When she had collected enough front pages she used them as the wall paper for their downstairs bathroom.
 

Flarbalard said:
I have a friend whose wife bought the enquirer for awhile. Headlines were good for a laugh, but she had ulterior motives. When she had collected enough front pages she used them as the wall paper for their downstairs bathroom.
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DaiwaGuy said:
For most of my career, we shot black and white and good ol' ISO 400 Tri-X was my staple. And yeah, I pushed it to 3200 regularly (night sports)

But at my paper, when the T-Max 400 film was introduced, I pushed the living shti out of it to as high as 25,000. I used to mix the T-Max developer stronger than recommended. I was known as the prince of darkness. I could get usable inages at that film speed when others were using their strobe for light. My images always caught the emotion. Strobers? Not so much.

When we went to Macs and Photoshop, I still pushed the film enough to make it scream. This was in the day when we used scanners to get our images from the film to photoshop.

Shooting digital is like shooting chromes (slide film), you have to slightly underexpose it to truly get the full image. If you overexpose chromes or digital, it just washes out and in both cases, is unusable.
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Thanks for the full reply. Obviously using a flash/strobe in a surveillance assignment is a huge error, which is most likely to spook the subject. AS my career progressed in the early 90's the use of video cameras became common place. For cases where the subject was committing unemployment insurance benefit fraud, being able to show their movements, and the duration of their movement, was a much better result than a 35mm shot. Having the time, and date on the video was also important as evidence.

One of my favorite workers comp videos was shot when the subject that I was following had a flat tire on his car. I got 33 minutes of him lugging the spare tire, jack and wheel wrench out of the trunk of his Camaro, changing the flat tire, then replacing all of it into the trunk. I was sitting in the window of a coffee shop across the street, with the video camera resting on the table running the whole time. When he pulled over, I jumped out and went into the coffee shop.

That was the best video sequence I ever shot, perfectly clear and stable. His employer was very happy with our results. They fired the guy and sued him in civil court to get back all the money he had obtained by fraud over a 2 year period of claiming he was unable to work, while actually working for a competing company in the industry. JimB.
 
Paco Dennis said:
OOps you're right. It could be taken as a political misinformation picture. False news. I removed it. Thanks. :)
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The fact you posted it at all is a political statement and not a mindset I tolerate. You can like whomever you like and I have nothing to say about that, but it doesn't mean I have to tolerate that mindset. You can DM me if you want to discuss it further.

Keep in mind, I'm an old Berkeley (CA) Communist.
 
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DaiwaGuy said:
The fact you posted it at all is a political statement and not a mindset I tolerate. You can like whomever you like and I have nothing to say about that, but it doesn't mean I have to tolerate that mindset. You can DM me if you want to discuss it further.


Keep in mind, I'm an old Berkeley (CA) Communist.
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That headline was in the National Enquirer. That is the topic. It is not my mindset. It is the publications. Look it up if you don't believe it. "she adopted an alien baby." If your going to block everything that could be fake news, good luck. The thread is about fake news by yellow journalism.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Remember the National Enquirer at the checkout stand. They had stories that shape shifting aliens were mating with humans. Or some movie star died, but was revived long enough to finish the movie. And there was Sasquatch, who mated with humans, too. Every article started off with "People were shocked to hear............". You couldn't have item without people getting shocked.
Remember "enquiring minds"?
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I miss all those 80s supermarket rags...National Enquirer, Star, Weekly Weird News. We all read them, but few believed them, unlike today where people report TMZ as "real news"
 
NewlySenior said:
$130 a year?!
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One-year cover price is $59.90. Each 1-year subscription includes 10 issues. Frequency of all magazines is subject to change without notice, and special issues may be published occasionally (which count as 2 issues). Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.
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I found this^^^that sounds better.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Didn't know. that I hadn't seen one at the check out in years.
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Here in Toronto in the 60's 70's the one that got a lot of attention was a scandal sheet called HUSH. It made no pretenses about being "politically correct " and it went after local politicians and gangsters with equal ferocity. The 2 publishers/editors were both lawyers who handled criminal court cases, so they knew just how far to push things, to avoid libel suits. One of their big assets was a large network of people who worked in various city and Provincial government offices, who could supply HUSH with facts and names. In Quebec, at the same time, there was a French language weekly called Hallo Police ? that covered crime and criminals in the Province. Lots of good material to work with in La Belle Provence at that time. JimB.
 
After Bill Clinton defeated President George H.W. Bush in the election, there was an issue of the paper showing Bush and Clinton walking on the grounds of the White House. Superimposed in the picture between the two men was an alien. The story line was that President Bush was showing President elect Clinton one of the tenents of the White House.
 

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