Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/18

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Subject: [Leica] power of the pixel 2
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:16:48 -0400
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> 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
>>
>>
>>
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> 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



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