Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm with Chris. I've never worked in any part of journalism or related-field, but as a consumer, I do have certain (perhaps naive) expectations. I think of a photograph captioned to be a representation of a particular time and place to be the visual equivalent of a quotation. There's a limited number of acceptable manipulations: the quote can be snipped, superfluous words dropped (always indicated by ellipsis) and very minor semantically-equivalent substitutions made (demarcated by square brackets). My personal complaint with the image in question is actually not so much the removal of the caddy, but the replacement with a background that wasn't there. For example, if they replaced the entire background with white, I'd be more forgiving. Or as Chris suggested, blurring and burning would be a better compromise. To return to the quotation analogy, you can't justifiably combine different phrases from different sentences in a new order and represent the result as a single quotation. Painting on a picture, or cutting and pasting a different background strikes me as over the line for any journalistic or documentary photography which purports to be an image of a specific subject at a specific point in time. -rei On 07/20/2010 11:56 AM, Chris Saganich wrote: > > Wherever the deep-pockets say. I have to agree that removing a person > of some significance from the frame solely for aesthetic reasons is > just wrong. I think blurring and burning him down a bit would have > sufficed and not got the guy into trouble. The wholesale elimination, > the removal from existence, the complete denial of the caddy's moment > is unjust IMHO. Where to draw the line? Always draw the line at > justice. > > Chris > > At 11:06 AM 7/20/2010, you wrote: >> LUG: >> >> So where do you draw the line? >> >> http://pdnedu.blogs.com/pdn_pulse/2010/07/getty-photographer-fired-over-altered-golf-photo.html >> >> >> >> <http://pdnedu.blogs.com/pdn_pulse/2010/07/getty-photographer-fired-over-altered-golf-photo.html> >> >> >> Tina >> >> -- >> Tina Manley, ASMP >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information