Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/20

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Subject: [Leica] Altered Photo
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:21:22 -0400
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PS

the alteration does not offend me in the least

ric


On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Ric Carter wrote:

> "In adherence with our zero tolerance policy on photo manipulation"
> 
> It's living in a fool's paradise or lying to the clientele or having NO 
> concept of what photos are
> 
> But, we've had this discussion many times without conclusion -- mot 
> recently with an identical problem--someone removed from the picture
> 
> It's all about some phoney concept of reality that does not in reality 
> exist
> 
> they're pictures, not reality, but impressions of it rendered by people 
> with opinions
> 
> The only way to avoid that is to place the viewer at the point of action, 
> in which case you don't need the photographer
> 
> ric
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> 
>> 
>> So where do you draw the line?
>> 
>> http://pdnedu.blogs.com/pdn_pulse/2010/07/getty-photographer-fired-over-altered-golf-photo.html
> 
> 
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