Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On 4/16/2011 7:59 PM, afirkin at afirkin.com wrote: >> Or wanting my parents to be a little closer and more intimate: >> >> http://tinyurl.com/43xt7jk >> >> became this with ridiculous ease. >> >> http://tinyurl.com/3jan9f3 >> >> am I faking my family's history here. I know you can 'pick' them, but if >> I >> had put more effort into them I suspect it would be very hard. Frank >> Hurley was heavily criticised for doctoring images of the first world >> war. >> He wanted to reflect the feelings he found at the front, and could not >> do >> that with straight photography. I suspect he would have loved digital >> ;-) >> >> Alastair >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > Alastair, > > I don't see any issue here - you are simply making the photos better and > for a noble cause. Unlike crudely manipulated photos such as the Iran > missile launches, or the notorious faked photo of the Oswald killing. > Even though there are many copies still in existence, the Warren > Commission never acknowledged that this was an alteration of a > promotional photo for Little Lee and the Rubies, a popular lounge act in > Dallas at that time. I believe here they are playing "Stairway to > Heaven". > > Ken > > http://gorightly.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/oswald_big.jpg Thanks Ken. I am amazed at how easy it was. Alastair