----- "John Francis" <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 07:12:48PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > > > > There's a continuum of purpose for photographic images. That purpose > > > matters in so far as the ethics of manipulation. Context is > important. > > > > At the PJ end, manipulation of the image is UN-ETHICAL, although > most > > images will be tweaked to some degree - levels, contrast, curves - > to > > make up for the deficiencies of the camera or the photographer's > nerve. > > It makes the image more viewable. > > > > I'm cool with that as long as nothing is removed or added that > wasn't in > > the original scene. > > > > Photojournalism should be reportage, not editorial comment. The > image > > should be as "true" as possible to the scene the photojournalist was > > > attempting to capture. > > That's too dogmatic for me (even though I'm at the PJ end of the > scale). > I'll edit an image to remove distracting elements as long as they are > only peripheral to the story being told - telegraph wires, a garish > item > in the background, an extraneous hand visible at the edge of the frame > .. > In other words I might edit to achive the image I was *attempting* to > capture, even if I didn't actually achieve that image in-camera. > >
I had to shoot three men for a magazine article the other day. It was just one of numerous shots I had to take, and I was in a hurry, so I exposed only two frames. One guy had his eyes closed in the first. In the second, another guy looked at a different photographer. So I replaced his head after copying it from the other image. I can't think of any valid reason why I wouldn't do that. It was undetectable, BTW:-) > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
