Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Speaking of cropping, a few months ago there was a photo of bombing victims in Iraq where you see a older man carrying in his arms a girl who appears unconcious or dead. All the copies in the US that I saw of the photo had it cropped so that you don't see that her leg(s) were blown away and she was completely maimed. Cropping in this case would appear "dishonest". - - Phong Don Dory wrote: > > Tina, > I have to admit that the standards in N. Carolina for journalism are way > too high. The image of the firefighter with the background burned out > is very borderline, but what disappeared was a very out of focus > background that contributed nothing to my understanding of the image. > The others are truly not enough different to matter. > > I will stand by my comments in my PAW. This sets a very difficult > standard that could prohibit any post processing of an image. Cropping > my no longer be allowed as that is what the burn in the firefighter > image amounted to; useless information was removed from the image. > > Don > dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html