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Subject: [Leica] Photoshopping for Truth? (and a sneaky real estate FS Friday)
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:15:44 -0500 (CDT)
References: <C8595883.642E1%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Does it make any difference that this is not an American magazine?


On Jul 6, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> This is too depressing.  Removing the lady altered the truth of  
>> the photo.
>>  Period.  It made Obama look isolated and alone.  That was not the  
>> truth.
>>  This is a very slippery slope and we're sliding down it too fast.
>>
>> Tina
>
>
> We he may have been feeling very isolated and alone.
> He may have not been aware of the women or known her name.
> The photo appears to have been taken with a very long lens say a  
> 300 or 400
> compressing his relationship to the oil rig in the background.
> In reality that oil rig may have been not something he was all that  
> aware
> of. It was way off in the distance.
> But the magazine wanted a pictures of the Pres and an oil rig. And  
> water.
> They didn't want ladies. The didn't want an oil rig as a spec in the
> horizon. So they approached the issue of putting a cover together  
> the way
> they've always approached it. And long ago their workflo went from  
> analog to
> digital.
>
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
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