Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I certainly understand that it's easier to edit photos, but I don't understand what that has to do to blur the distinction between reporting, government spin, and entertainment and advertising. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Afterswift@aol.com Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 2:59 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHERS; Leicas In a message dated 9/5/03 10:35:19 AM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: << digital technology has worsened the picture by making it very easy to further blur the distinctions between the reporting, and government-spin, entertainment-advertising media HOW? >> - -------------------------------------------------------------- By modifying normal stock images to sell products in magazines. The same thing is done in government report illustrations and it's rampant in advertising and entertainment. Just look at the posters and the card ads on buses, etc. There isn't an untouched up photo in any of those venues. There's a promo shot obviously enhanced of a buxom working girl that is used in the Times to push retirement stocks. Digital editing is used all over the place -- including even on the LUG. I attribute that form of modification to mostly make an image clearer on our monitors. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html