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Subject: [Leica] Another Altered Photo
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Mon Aug 7 09:29:12 2006
References: <20060807160338.77406.qmail@web25509.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

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
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>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:
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>>Ric Carter offered:
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Altered Photo
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>>>Boy, that's clumsy cloning!
>>>Maybe such poor skills are sufficient grounds for firing.<<>
>>>      
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>>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
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>>>On Aug 7, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Gregory Rubenstein wrote:
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>>>>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
>>>>
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