On Sep 26, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Anthony Farr wrote:
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
That's not a crop. it's a camera angle gimmick that was apparently the
intention of the photographer. In that sense, it's less egregious than
the Newsweek manipulation of the Cheney pic. Still not good news
reporting, but the fault, if any, lies with the photographer. If it
wasn't part of a news story but merely a gag pic, it's just fine.
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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