"tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> "T Rittenhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >I wondered why Schneider was singled out to be made an >> example of, the PDN article makes that clear. A jealous >> competitor in the contest complained. >> >> I don't know if the photographers who complained were competitors, >> but there certainly seems to be some political sub text of this >> kind going on. I find it very suspicious that the Charlotte Observer >> won't let anyone see the unaltered files so they can be compared to >> the published photos. > >On the way out of town I picked up a copy of the Observer to read the >article Patrick had mentioned would be coming out. The article is on >the editorial page, and shows the unaltered version of the shot of the >2 firefighters commiserating at a funeral. You can find the altered >version on the Observer site. > >In the background you can see some "stuff", thrown way out of focus by >DOF. If you look at it for a second, one is obviously a person in >uniform, from the neck down. There might be a head above one of the >fireman's heads. > >In the final version, the background is black. It's also been cropped.
CROPPED??? Hang him! ;-) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
