Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ever seen Jerry Uelsman's ( sp?) work? Pretty amazing manipulation. There are 2 issues here.... altering an image, and getting fired. The getting fired part is most likely an issue of following commands from your boss. I don;t see a way out of that position. If you break a written rule, you deserve the consequences you get. If that kills your career, ditto. You deserve the consequences you get. The altering an image, using the logic that it is perceived that images are "the truth" is sort of akin to believing all you read in the paper because it is written down, or words spoken through the radio ( Case in point is the current PR being spoken by the Iraqi Information Minister that the US is getting nowhere in the war in Iraq) . That position I find naive. It may be that the average reader of the paper DOES indeed believe what he reads/sees. That would justify the position of non-manipulation in some minds. However, I can not justify why a written word journalist or the editorial staff of a paper can apply 2 standards to the same paper. ( OK BD, I give in on the advertisers telling the truth.. if required, there would be no advertising!) Cropping an image in the darkroom, cropping an image in Photoshop, adding/deleting elements through dodging, adding/deleting elements throu Photoshop...I do not see the difference. In the "old days", did the photojournalists actually submit printed photos to their editors, or did they submit FILM, from which the editors woould select images, cropping, etc? Could this be the basis for the double standard? I do like the idea that altered images be so marked, and maybe, given the abilities the papers' have through the Internet, they could posst all 3 images, so the reader could make his own conclusion about the "story" the picture tells. Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net To do nothing in Photoshop that he wouldn't do in a wet darkroom. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html