[Leica] Photoshopping for Truth? (and a sneaky real estate FS Friday)

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest)]

So Mark, do you care if an editor uses one of your images and removes
two people in your work, potentially changing the impact along many
axes in the eye of the viewer? What if it is not how you wanted the
image presented?

It IS better for the magazine cover,the way it was edited, but that way
it was edited was also potentially very wrong. Unless one just cares
about the dolla billz and not the truth or the historical record. In
that case, 'shop away!
Phil Forrest


> Well there are degrees of altering photos and in the darkroom
> photographers did it with every photo they have turned in for
> decades. And In the case of the magazines like LIFE those images
> would be drastically altered at that point. Everything smoothed out
> and simplified. Nobody said a cross world about it but now that its
> Photoshop instead of an airbrush in sombody hand its a huge moral
> issue. Did that lady not being there distort the story? It was the
> opinion apparently of the people in the magazine that the image was
> more concise without her. I agree.
> 
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
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