Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]He didn't just change the contrast, he added extra smoke. It's a rather different thing, surely? Nick ----- Original Message ---- From: Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, 7 August, 2006 4:56:12 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Altered Photo Again, of course....much more editorial effect in being killed in high contrast where as the original shot showed easy dying. Hell, you guys, it appears as if all the fellow was doing was making the smoke show up better. It takes about 15 seconds in Photoshop but doesn't change content one darn iota. Walt Ted Grant wrote: > Ric Carter offered: > Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Altered Photo > > >> Boy, that's clumsy cloning! >> Maybe such poor skills are sufficient grounds for firing.<<> > > > Hi Ric, > Right on! It's amazing it wasn't picked-up by a photo-editor before it > was even on the wire, it's so bad. Rank amateur photo-shopper! He > deserved to be fired for fiddling the photo and trying to put a > greater editorial meaning to the picture. > > Actually the real unaltered photo is much stronger, he should've left > well enough alone. > > ted > > > > >> On Aug 7, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Gregory Rubenstein wrote: >> >>> >>> Reuters has canned a photographer in Beirut for altering a photo, >>> according to an article at the following link from MSNBC. >>> >>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13165165/ >>> >>> This includes the photo, altered and unaltered, as well as Reuter's >>> story. >>> >>> Greg Rubenstein >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.7/410 - Release Date: >> 05/08/2006 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information