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Here’s a question of morality for you. This is an imaginary incident, but I believe you would find it both interesting and beneficial to think through this exercise.
The situation: You are in the Middle East, and there is a huge flood in progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and much infrastructure destroyed.
You’re a freelance photographer for an international news service. You’re traveling alone, looking for particularly poignant and dramatic scenes you can capture.
You come across Osama Bin Laden, who has been engulfed by the raging torrent. He is clinging to a fallen tree limb and is about to be swept away to his death by the flood waters.
You are faced with a decision. You can either put down your camera and go to his rescue, or take what is sure to be a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of him as he loses his grip on the limb.
So, here’s the question...and consider it carefully before you answer...what shutter speed would you use?
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