Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The picture with the maimed legless girls legs cropped out was "softened" in my words for it's local audience by cutting bloody stumps out. Bloody stumps just don't appear on many papers covers. I"m sure this happens all the time. Is the point of the picture that a girl gets saved or a legless maimed girl gets saved? It was decided that that the girl was maimed was not central to the message of the picture. So it was cropped. Why does the girl have to be mained? Becuas the photographer would have not taken the picture in the first place as lots of people were being saved at the time. But cropping is OK while darkening is not? Or blurring. Or cloning? I think when you work for a paper you go by their ethical rules unless they go against yours. You play it the way the other photographers play it working for that paper. You expect them to Handle your shots the way they've handled others. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html