On 23/01/2014 7:32 PM, Tom C wrote:
From: Bill <[email protected]>
A couple of things:
1) It's a matter of principal. It's a news photo, and thusly should be
as unmanipulated as possible.
2) Where is the slippery slope? When does it become not OK to make
manipulations? Are we OK with not knowing if an image we are being
presented with is a representation of the real thing or not?
Was that the case here? What was the subject of the photo? The soldier
or the video camera?
If I pick up a candy bar wrapper that's littering the foreground in a
landscape shot is that wrong? No. If I clone it out afterwards when I
notice it. Is that wrong? No.
You are right, and I am guilty of doing the same thing. However, I am
making art to hang on a wall, not selling war pictures to a newspaper.
This wasn't a case of a photographer manipulating a photo with intent
to mislead the viewer. It was case of cloning out an unimportant
element. What viewer looked at it and thought, 'Wow there's supposed
to be a video camera down in the corner'?
But it does, in it's own way, manipulate the viewer. With the video
camera in, the picture can have a somewhat different interpretation.
With the video camera in, they could almost be shooting on a movie set.
We aren't talking about a family portrait where we expect Aunt Maude to
look 10 years younger, and any manipulation that alters our perception
of the image is wrong, plain and simple. This includes extreme contrast
manipulation, extreme dodging and burning, removing or adding subject
matter, in fact anything that is done with the intention of obscuring
what was actually in front of the camera.
For myself, even using really long or really short focal lengths to
alter the image from a normal perspective can be an excessive manipulation.
bill
Come now, come now. You make me spit my wine out! Mr. Lens Inventory.
My stuff is closer Aunt Maude than Walter Cronkite.
bill
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