Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand writes: Do you mean to say that airbrushing inconvenient parts of images is acceptable? Or staging images and passing them off as spontaneous? These 'lies' have always been part and parcel of photography and photojournalism, especially when a propaganda machine is rolling. - - - - - - Of course the prohibition of photo manipulation can be taken too far. In the distant past when I actually got paid to take pictures for a newspaper, I had a photo editor who firmly believed that the camera was the reader's eyeball surrogate. He felt that the picture should show exactly what a reader would see if standing in the same position as the photographer. If you wanted a bigger picture, move closer to the action. Any use of wide angle or telephoto lenses would alter the perspective and would be considered "editorializing", a major sin in newspaper circles. Of course in our case the point was moot since we all used 4x5 Speed Graphics. I noted also that he didn't have an objection to cutting up the negative with a pair of scissors to make the picture fit in the available space. I wonder how he would feel about Photoshop? Larry Z