Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If I'm getting paid, I don't care how they print it. I've sold stuff to a lot of businesses and they ask things like is it ok to crop, tone, colorize, retouch, etc. Hell I don't care, send me my check. I'm not a journalist though. I'm just an artist who earns his living licensing my work to businesses, and selling prints to people that like art. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-424-0897 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! On 7/6/10 9:52 PM, "Philip Forrest" <photo.forrest at earthlink.net> wrote: > So Mark, do you care if an editor uses one of your images and removes > two people in your work, potentially changing the impact along many > axes in the eye of the viewer? What if it is not how you wanted the > image presented? > > It IS better for the magazine cover,the way it was edited, but that way > it was edited was also potentially very wrong. Unless one just cares > about the dolla billz and not the truth or the historical record. In > that case, 'shop away! > Phil Forrest > > >> Well there are degrees of altering photos and in the darkroom >> photographers did it with every photo they have turned in for >> decades. And In the case of the magazines like LIFE those images >> would be drastically altered at that point. Everything smoothed out >> and simplified. Nobody said a cross world about it but now that its >> Photoshop instead of an airbrush in sombody hand its a huge moral >> issue. Did that lady not being there distort the story? It was the >> opinion apparently of the people in the magazine that the image was >> more concise without her. I agree. >> >> [Rabs] >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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