THIS is a crop of dubious ethics (except that it portrays a widely
held opinion of the subject, Alan Jones):
http://www.ans.com.au/~jgwr/alanjones.jpg
WARNING. NSFW (or children, or the easily offended)
regards, Anthony
"Of what use is lens and light
to those who lack in mind and sight"
(Anon)
2009/9/27 Anthony Farr <[email protected]>:
> The "uncropped" frame was still a selective view, one that the
> photographer cropped from the scene as it occurred. We can't be
> certain that the context of the uncropped picture was faithful to the
> actual event, so why should we be worried by the editorial crop?
>
> It was a boring picture of a bunch of people including Dick Cheney.
> It became a boring picture of DIck Cheney, who AFAIAC is the only
> notable person in the scene. Nothing remarkable was happening before
> the crop, and nothing sinister was falsely implied by the cropping.
> There are things in the world to worry about that are genuinely evil,
> this isn't one of them.
>
> regards, Anthony
>
> "Of what use is lens and light
> to those who lack in mind and sight"
> (Anon)
>
>
>
> 2009/9/27 Tim Bray <[email protected]>:
>> Is it OK to crop a picture to make an editorial point? The answer's
>> not obvious. See
>> http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/the-ethics-of-photocropping.html
>>
>> -T
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