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Title: Morals Test
Post by: sledgemeister on July 07, 2013, 08:15:42 PM
MORALS TEST - READ CAREFULLY

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.



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 all of its destructive fury.



THE TEST:

Suddenly you see a neatly woman in the water.   
She is fighting for his 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 Michelle Obama!

At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take her under forever.



THE OPTIONS:

You can save the life of  Michelle Obama or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo,
documenting the death of one of the world's most powerful socialist women,
hell bent on the destruction of the USA ..



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?
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: fightingquaker13 on July 07, 2013, 09:40:00 PM
Blood's thicker than water Sledge. You save her. But, before hauling her on board your canoe, you make her promise she'll become a life member of the NRA (and that you catch on video). ;D
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: tombogan03884 on July 07, 2013, 09:43:43 PM
Go with color.
It makes it easier to photoshop out your foot on her head.
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: Frosty on July 07, 2013, 10:31:05 PM
Blood's thicker than water Sledge. You save her. But, before hauling her on board your canoe, you make her promise she'll become a life member of the NRA (and that you catch on video). ;D
After she agrees & gets saved & then realizes what she agreed too, she might just jump back in
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: tombogan03884 on July 07, 2013, 10:34:19 PM
Only an idiot would believe any thing a liberal said .
Didn't you learn ANYTHING from old man Bush's defeat ?
"Read my lips, no new taxes."
Ring any bells ?
Them that don't know history are condemned to repeat it.
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: fightingquaker13 on July 07, 2013, 11:07:26 PM
Hence the video. She'd pay millions for the tape. ;D
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: rojawe on July 08, 2013, 06:18:54 AM
I saw nothing and know nothing
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: Solus on July 08, 2013, 06:47:00 AM
Come on, guys.  Even if it is MO, you have to throw her a rope.

You can snap the pictures as she struggles with the rope until she pulls the other end into the water with  her.
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: tombogan03884 on July 08, 2013, 08:18:02 AM
Now that is brilliant Solus, " never let a crisis go to waste".
3 birds with one stone, look like a hero, still get your Pulitzer, and reduce federal spending all in one shot.  ;D
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: Solus on July 08, 2013, 09:07:30 AM
Reporter:  Mr. Solus, tell us about your failed attempt to save Michelle Obama.

Solus:  I did what I had to do.  I'm sure she thought she was going to make it until the rope got away from her.

Reporter:  How do you feel about the last pictures you took of her?

Solus:  Very good.  I'm sure she would have wanted the world to know she was a fighter, right up to the end.

Reporter:  Mr. Solus, do you have any last thoughts about this tragedy?

Solus:  Yes.  I do hope they recover her body quickly...before it gets all bloated and eaten on by crabs and other critters.  I've always said she deserves a decent burial.

Reporter:  Thank you for your time, Mr. Solus.

Solus:  My pleasure.
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: Pathfinder on July 08, 2013, 01:59:24 PM
Hence the video. She'd pay millions for the tape. ;D

Nope, wrong again. You'll end up dead in a fiery car accident (or a sudden, unexpected heart attack, or perhaps an unexpected suicide, or an unexpected fatal mugging, or  . . . ) and the tape will disappear.

Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: fightingquaker13 on July 08, 2013, 03:03:13 PM
Nope, wrong again. You'll end up dead in a fiery car accident (or a sudden, unexpected heart attack, or perhaps an unexpected suicide, or an unexpected fatal mugging, or  . . . ) and the tape will disappear.


Note to board. If I stop posting, Get alibi's from Rahm and Jarret. ;D
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: tombogan03884 on July 08, 2013, 03:28:18 PM
Don't worry FQ, we'll get the DOJ right on it.
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: Jrlobo on July 08, 2013, 04:16:34 PM
You yanks ought to be ashamed of yourselves! Sledge opened a thread that should have been in the joke spool and you take it seriously. Sledge and I can't believe it! But, I know, deep down, that all of you yanks would have saved MO if the situation were real. Yep, you would indeed. Because, deep down, that's what yanks do, don't you? Now, we aussies, we're different. We would have used black and white just for the contrast, eh Sledge?
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: sledgemeister on July 09, 2013, 08:34:17 AM
You yanks ought to be ashamed of yourselves! Sledge opened a thread that should have been in the joke spool and you take it seriously. Sledge and I can't believe it! But, I know, deep down, that all of you yanks would have saved MO if the situation were real. Yep, you would indeed. Because, deep down, that's what yanks do, don't you? Now, we aussies, we're different. We would have used black and white just for the contrast, eh Sledge?

Spot on mate, dunno if I would have shown my foot on her head though  ;D
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: Big Frank on July 10, 2013, 07:30:48 PM
It's a trick question. No one uses film anymore.  ;)
Title: Re: Morals Test
Post by: alfsauve on July 11, 2013, 04:43:44 PM
It's a trick question. No one uses film anymore.  ;)

Yes but if I could set my DSLR to use the all 24 bits for greyscale then I could get some fantastic contrast details otherwise not available using RGB.

The decisions, decisions decisions.