If you draw the line at "nothing added, nothing removed" no one can
argue about how much has been changed in the story the image tells.
There's really nowhere else you can draw that line without it being
challenged.
On 1/23/2014 8:10 PM, Tom C wrote:
From: Igor Roshchin <[email protected]>
I am not seeing what was the problem in what he did.
The modification he did did not change the purpose of the photo or
whatever the photo presents.
It brings back the question of what is and what is not "manipulation" of
the photo. As "burning and dodging" is also image manipulation and
modification.
While I understand that one can defined the modification of an image
when the actual pixels are replaced/moved.
But what if he just darkened some portion of the photo with an object in
it so that the object is deep in a shadow, and hence cannot be seen on the
photo? That's not moving of the pixels, but just changing the levels
on a part of the photograph.
I understand the problem when a person is removed from a group photo,
but that's totally different.
I think in this particular case, they are making a mountain out of a
molehill.
Thu Jan 23 13:11:02 EST 2014
Mark Roberts wrote:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-23/pulitzer-photographer-narciso-conteras-fired-syria-ap/5215200
I agree. If the content removed from an image did not add to the
meaningful information conveyed, then removing it did not subtract
from the meaningful information either and it's still journalistically
'truthful'.
It's ridiculous to moralize on something so trivial when news and
journalistic organizations routinely use file photos to illustrate a
story. Often those photos are far removed from the time and place the
story is about and can be very misleading, yet that's OK and removing
a distracting element is not? Seems like a double standard to me.
If the image was a little wider and the video camera could have been
cropped instead of cloned...that's as much a manipulation, as is
cropping in the viewfinder.
I agree with Misere, if words can be edited and changed, to craft the
story, then the same standard should apply to images.
Misleading with an image is obviously wrong.
Photos are not truth and never were.
Tom C.
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