Of course it is. Photographs aren't reality. Cell phones and the fact everyone has cell phones with cameras now, have turned up quite a few police abuses in the news. Bystanders take pictures. With so MANY images out there now, a photojournalist is really taking a crazy risk altering a picture.
Photographers know how much "reality" can be altered just by what they decide to include in the frame, even without Photoshopping, but that isn't really the issue. EVERYONE knows about Photoshopping, we are all subjected to craftily photographed ads all the time. News agencies SHOULD have different standards, if they didn't, propaganda would be too darn easy. People need to trust they aren't being DELIBERATELY lied to. Or forget new agencies altogether and just assume/admit they are propaganda machines like any other Madison Ave ad company. Marnie In a message dated 1/23/2014 7:49:38 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: The problem I see is that there's a basic assumption that the photons entering the lens and recorded on the media somehow represent THE TRUTH. I believe that assumption is flawed. -- 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.
