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pachyderm
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| One more reason to have an original negative or transparency: "After all the official apologies were made and the platitudes were spoken, the “suits” went home and the real work of fixing the 2008 McKinney High School yearbook was left to the very same students who saw their year’s work ruined by a Lifetouch employee’s “serious error in judgment.”" "From the moment it was discovered that pictures in the “The Lion” had been digitally altered by outside contractor Lifetouch Photography, yearbook staff showed their dedication and commitment as they cancelled social plans and work to spend this past weekend pouring over hundreds of pictures." http://www.allenamerican.com/articles/2008/05/29/mckinney_courier-gazette/news/inews02a.txt Then again, there are those who say "only the picture matters". These students obviously don't feel that way. It is sad that there was once a period of time where photography moved people to make changes - social and otherwise. Nowdays, uncomfortable pictures are not trusted as being "real" - they are thought of as "someone Photoshopped" it. Just this morning I saw a magazine at the book store on Travel Photography. I had intended to buy it, but once I looked inside, I saw one article after another about replacing backgrounds and skies. I guess we can now just pretend to visit sone other country or location - just photoshop the images. Sad.
Robert M. Teague---------------------------------------------
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lion
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| I gues it all depends on the circumstance. I see nothing wrong with altering a shot that is meant to be "art" or decoration, altering a shot that is mainly a record is definitly a problem. To me this is the problem with PS, just because you can do it, does not mean you HAVE to do it, but PS offers too much of a temptation to muck around with pictures to "improve" them.
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I agree with Jorge. I (and my printer Bill Nordstrom) generally keep the image as it was seen and recorded in my transparencies. However, there are those occasions when we will remove a minor item such as a blade of grass etc. In only one instance though thus far, we have worked an image a little more because we could make it look cleaner and "prettier" (I am always reluctant to cut things in the field). As Jorge said, and as I explained to Bill Nordstrom when we proceeded "this is a being used as art, and is not being used as journalism".
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| Following in the same vein: "I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester. But removing him from a dozen years of vacation photographs took only hours, with some deft mouse work from a willing friend who was proficient in Photoshop, the popular digital-image editing program. Like a Stalin-era technician in the Kremlin removing all traces of an out-of-favor official from state photos, the friend erased the husband from numerous cherished pictures taken on cruises and at Caribbean cottages, where he had been standing alongside Ms. Horn, now 50, and other traveling companions." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/fashion/17photo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin So, is it any wonder people no longer believe in photography to tell the truth.
Robert M. Teague---------------------------------------------
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"Fujifilm remains true to its heritage and to the acknowledged superior image quality delivered by professional photographic film products." -- Fuji Press Release An old Hasidic story says we should wear a coat with two pockets in order to receive God's message. In one pocket, the message is: "You are nothing but one of billions of grains of sand in the universe." In the other, the message is: "I made the universe just for you."
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lion
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Hi Robert,
That may be true. But, don't forget that photography can "lie" through our choice of lenses, filters, film, vantage point, etc. No one ever said that photography and photographs are a true rendering of a scene or situation.
Rich
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