On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 09:48:51AM -0700, Tim Bray wrote: > 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
I'll wade into the silliness: Cropping a photo is no less ethical than using a zoom lens, or choosing where to aim the camera. If Newsweek paid the photographer for the rights to use the photo any way that they choose, then there is nothing unethical about their choosing to crop it. It's a boring photo, and Cheney is the only one in it that seem to have any relevance to the discussion. Cropping out the other people, or the wine glass is no less ethical than straightening it. > > -T > > -- > 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. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
