On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 04:01:30PM -0400, paul stenquist wrote: > >I guess that's where we disagree - I think Newsweek crossed the line > >when they chose the photograph, not when they cropped out the other > >people (who, as Larry has pointed out, weren't relevant to the story). > > > > > I can't imagine they would have used the photo without the crop. It > wouldn't have made much sense. But you're right to say that the > combination of this pic and the story's subject was the most egregious > offense. A policy that prohibits crops which change the focus or > content of a photo eliminates this kind of shenanigans.
Just out of curiousity, is there any connection between the photo and the quote? Was that the shot they had from that interview? Or did they go through five years of archives to find it? Is it possible that that was just the only shot that they had of that interview, or the clearest one, and the editor innocently cropped out all of the extraneous noise? Or could it be possible that one person chose the photo, another cropped it, and someone else chose the quote? Fred's doing the article, calls up Sally and says, "get me a picture of Cheney from the interview last week and send it down to Sue in layout for cropping". -- 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.
