Photographs have never had integrity. Photographers have integrity. You can pick the angle and location for your shot to tell a story as you see it, then your editor can crop it to change it their bias and still not ever have "manipulated" the shot. The fact that we can now clone realistic faeries or flying saucers into our pictures or turn bystanders into thriller style zombies to tell absolute lies hasn't changed the basic premise. The problem with the technological solutions is that they can always go wrong. If there's no accounting for transmission error, (say a bit or two or three gets flipped), then suddenly the image has been altered, even if no actual change is made to the viewed image or actual intent to change it has been made. If there's some tolerance for this type of thing then a bright guy will figure out a metric to modify photos and keep within the envelope. A more complex system might or might not take a little longer. What it will always come down to is can you trust your source or not. Once a source has proven itself to be untrustworthy gaining back that trust is very difficult. Hum, maybe that's why AP is carrying this story...
Jaume Lahuerta wrote: > This reminds me that I recently saw a very nice picture taken bya friend who > is a great amateur nature photographer. > It showed a stork flying with one of those supermarket plastic bags hooked in > one leg. The bag was inflated by the air, it was sunset time (gret light), > the supermarket brand was perfectly visible...a great picture !!... > ...10-20 years ago, I am afraid. > > Today, at least half of the people looking at it will think: "Photoshop" > > BTW, he never does any kind of cloning in his pictures. > > ----- Mensaje original ---- > De: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Para: SeePhoto Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; PDML List <[email protected]> > Enviado: martes, 26 de febrero, 2008 18:20:25 > Asunto: fwd: Effort Made To Restore Photography's Credibility > > I > thought > this > article > published > by > Anick > Jesdanun > of > the > Associated > Press > an > interesting > read. > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23342630/ > > Godfrey > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
