[Leica] power of the pixel 2

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)]

> Alastair SHOWED & ASKED:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] power of the pixel 2
>
>
>  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 criticized 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 my friend,
> No fear about cheating/faking as this is a simple "photo adjustment of
> space!" A slight cropping of space in a family photograph! Not moving the
> Eiffel Tower to lower Manhattan! ;-)
>
> After all you didn't put yourself in the picture between them. That might
> be
> pushing the cropping space! :-)
>
> Look, this is truly a no brainer when we are dealing with personal and
> family photographs! Like who in the hell  outside of your home while you
> are
> scanning and preserving photos of past family events needs to know what
> you,
> me or anyone does with our family photographs?
>
> Just go ahead and make all the improvements you feel while making new
> prints
> of the modified version! The world be damned! It's nobodies business but
> your own.
> Personally I think it a nice crop movement improving the photo. Good
> looking
> folks! :-)

thanks Ted, they were a handsome couple: pity they kept it to their
generation ;-)

Alastair