Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nick Here are the originals and one that spent the 15 seconds in Photoshop. Nothing changed but levels. No added smoke, it just shows better with contrast http://gallery.leica-users.org/album484/060807_reutersdoc_hmed_630a_hlarge http://gallery.leica-users.org/album484/smoke Walt Nick Roberts wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >