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Subject: RE: [Leica] fired for photoshopping
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:48:14 -0500

I definitely agree with Tina on this one - the altered image is far more
threatening, and far more dramatic, than the two unaltered images.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Peterson
Arthur G NSSC
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:46 PM
To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
Subject: RE: [Leica] fired for photoshopping



		Tina,

		I disagree with your comment (below).  In the altered,
composite photo, the soldier is not pointing his gun at the father and
child.  It rather shows him pointing his gun sideways, to his right, and
more or less along the plane of the photograph, while the father and
child are approaching him from his left.  This is also the soldier's
orientation in of one of the original photos, of course, although in
that one, the father and child are a bit farther away and do not seem to
be headed toward him.  It is the other original photo, not the composite
one, that has the soldier pointing his gun at an angle slightly back
from the plane of the photograph, and therefore somewhat more in the
direction of the more distant father and child.

		Art Peterson
		Alexandria, Virginia


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Tina Manley [mailto:images@InfoAve.Net]
		Sent:	Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:35 PM
		To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
		Subject:	RE: [Leica] fired for photoshopping

		At 03:49 PM 4/2/2003 -0800, you wrote:

		>BTW, if you actually saw the images ( LA Times today,
page
A6) you would
		>notice that the actual changes made did not change the
intent or message of
		>the photo.  It improved the image.


		I totally disagree.  It changed the entire intent of the
photo.  In the 
		original two photos, the soldier is not pointing a
weapon at the father 
		carrying the child.  In the composite photo he is.  The
difference in the 
		two photos is astounding to me.

		Tina


		Tina Manley, ASMP
		http://www.tinamanley.com

		photos available from:
		http://www.pdiphotos.com
		http://www.mira.com
		http://www.agpix.com
		http://www.newscom.com





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