Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The problem of altered images has bothered scientists as well as fashion aware health professionals. An article in Science magazine has suggested that for every enhanced image in a scientific publication, the original, unaltered image be included in the online scientific data supporting the article. This will allow the authors to enhance their images for clarity and emphasis of specific points without being accused of manipulating the findings, Interested readers will be able to view the "raw data" and judge the scientific validity of the enhanced image for themselves. Examples of altered images are the artificial colors in scenes from the Mars Rovers, astronomical photos where colors are used to indicate the distribution of elements, medical photos where various hues represent tissue density. By imposing this requirement for all images, regardless of the amount or type of editing, ambiguity as regards literary license is removed. I'm not sure how this requirement could be met for Vogue or Elle except to have a website where the unaltered images could be viewed. But I'm sure the pretty models would object to having their unaltered selves displayed in public. Larry Z