Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 11/6/03 9:32 PM, Phong at phong@doan-ltd.com wrote: > Speaking of cropping, a few months ago there was > a photo of bombing victims in Iraq where you see > a older man carrying in his arms a girl who appears > unconcious or dead. All the copies in the US that > I saw of the photo had it cropped so that you don't > see that her leg(s) were blown away and she was > completely maimed. Cropping in this case would > appear "dishonest". How do you know it was cropped? Did you see her maimed legs in non-US publications? Editors tend to go with their reader's tastes. It's hardly dishonest to crop. It's editorial judgment. The act of photographing as has been said here, is selectively cropping from real life anyway. If the point of the photo was her legs, then maybe it wasn't a good decision to crop, but it's hardly dishonest because readers understand there is a world outside the borders of the photo. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com "Where books are burned in the end people will burned, too." Heinrich Heine - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html