Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Photojournalistic integrity and masking
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 05:05:21 -0500
 
At 09:00 PM 9/15/99 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>And I wasn't saying what Time did was OK. It just wasn't a good example of
>computer manipulation: A dark print!

But it is a good example of what is WRONG with computer manipulation. 
There's a lot right with it. But for journalistic purposes, moving pyramids 
and darkening skin tones are one in the same. Unethical.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

I think the 50(mm lens) is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires 
you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter. -William Albert Allard, 
"The Photographic Essay"