Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have had enough you are full of shite. Digital has contributed no more than photography or lying writers. In photography it just made it quicker and easier. Stop it. Jim On 9/5/03 1:59 PM, "Afterswift@aol.com" <Afterswift@aol.com> wrote: > > In a message dated 9/5/03 10:35:19 AM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: > > << digital technology has worsened the picture by making it very easy to > further blur the distinctions between the reporting, and > government-spin, > entertainment-advertising media > > HOW? >> > -------------------------------------------------------------- > By modifying normal stock images to sell products in magazines. The same > thing is done in government report illustrations and it's rampant in > advertising > and entertainment. Just look at the posters and the card ads on buses, etc. > There isn't an untouched up photo in any of those venues. There's a promo shot > obviously enhanced of a buxom working girl that is used in the Times to push > retirement stocks. Digital editing is used all over the place -- including > even > on the LUG. I attribute that form of modification to mostly make an image > clearer on our monitors. > > br > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html