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>Brian Jennison wrote, of Greg Anderson's comment of Keith Wilhite's KCS >shot: > > >I remember Keith Wilhite's nearly identically composed KCS shot on Kansas >City Southern's HOTT (Heard On The Track) magazine cover from Aug/Sep 1991 >(and I'm looking at it now), where they digitally removed all of the power >lines and wires from that very hillside. I thought it strange as Kansas >City Power & Light is a big KCS customer. :) > >Personally, I think the shot looks less interesting without the power >lines. > >Dave Cohen >Photographer Dave and Brian bring up an interesting point re digitally "enhanced" (?) shots. I have seen several where I either know the scene, or was personally involved. Some years ago I furnished an early slide of SP Baldwin 5275 taken at the SP crossing of the Los Angeles River at Mission Tower. The scene was, and I think still is, fraught with high tension power lines and cables. Joe Strapac wanted to use it on the 1983-85 Southern Pacific Review cover and had the power lines "enhanced" out. The photo made an adequate cover, and hopefully helped sell a few more books. As far as enhancing goes, I consider it to be more of an advertising gimmick than anything else if there are major changes made to "improve" the scene. Minor changes to assist in cropping or the removal of conflicting branches, etc I consider acceptable. Anything other than that can be an exercise in state of the art technology and I wonder about passing it off as your own composition. Where does creativity begin and end, when the shutter fires, in the darkroom, or at the computer? What is the consensus of this group? John ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
