Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:58 PM 4/15/2007, you wrote: >I hadn't seen this, but it reminds me of the famous firing over an >altered photograph early on during the war. > >http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=28082 > >Jeff M And that's the kind of thing that you should get fired for, too, and the photojournalist who cloned smoke to make it look like the Israel/Palestinian bombing was worse than it actually was. On the other hand, when Patrick Schneider burned in the background and/or intensified the color on the silhouette of a firefighter, if the photo is used to illustrate an article about firefighting and was not an actual news story about a particular fire, and if the photograph is labeled "photo-illustration", that should be o.k. There's a definite line there between a news/photojournalist photograph and a stock/illustrator photograph. What is o.k. for one is definitely not o.k. for the other. I don't think most of the public trusts photojournalists anymore - mainly because of the paparazzis and scandals like Oprah's head on Ann-Margret's body for TV Guide or O.J. Simpson's darker skin on Time Magazine - but then,I don't consider celebrity photographers to be photojournalists anyway. It's a mess currently and is not being helped by citizen "photojournalists" who provide photos to newspapers for free but have no training or knowledge of what is allowed and what is not. Just my 2 cents! Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com