21 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



Photo Manipulation Isn’t a Sin — But Lying About It Is With technology making it so easy to profoundly alter photojournalistic images — deleting or adding items, changing the source of the lighting and so on — how can we, the audience, know that what we’re seeing is “the truth”?
The answer is, we can’t.
While it is commendable that Reuters and Adobe, for example, are working to make altered files more readily identifiable, let’s face it: it’s a losing battle. It will never adequately protect news consumers. It Comes Down to Two People. More info: http://rising.blackstar.com/photo-manipulation-isn%E2%80%99t-a-sin-%E2%80%94-but-lying-about-it-is.html ; Posted in Photojournalism ; SOURCE: Paul Melcher .


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30 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: Alec



BETWEEN THE LINES -- Do Your Photos Carry Secret Messages?
In a recent court trial, alleged Russian spies recently arrested by the FBI are accused of encoding messages into otherwise innocuous pictures. To generate the picture on a computer screen, the computer assigns every pixel three numeric values that correspond to the amount of red, green or blue in the color the pixel displays. By changing those values ever so slightly, the spies could hide the 1's and 0's of computer language in the picture's pixel numbers, but without altering the picture's appearance to the human eye, Bellovin said. In doing so, the alleged spies were practicing a modern form of "steganography," which refers to the science of concealing messages within images. Early examples include Ancient Greek messages tattooed into the shaved scalps of slaves, and then hidden underneath the re-grown head of hair, according to the classical author Herodotus.
SOURCE: Stuart Fox, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer, LiveScience.com http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100630/sc_livescience/russianspieshidsecretcodesinonlinephotos


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23 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



THE RIGHT THING -- Is HDR Imaging Ethical for Photojournalists? - Ideally, the media wants to publish images that represent an event as realistically as possible. HDR imaging has the capacity to do that. Is a single image — dodged, burned, noise reduced and color balanced — more of an unaltered picture than multiple images, merged. http://rising.blackstar.com/is-hdr-imaging-ethical-for-photojournalists.html


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16 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



GUIDELINES -- Editorial ethics for photojournalists This site has produced a set of suggested ethical guidelines for video and photo journalists following a request from a users. Media Helping Media often produces custom-made training modules free of charge. This site has produced a set of suggested ethical guidelines for video and photo journalists following a request from a users. Media Helping Media often produces custom-made training modules free of charge. http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/training-resources/editorial-ethics/527-editorial-ethics-for-photojournalists

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19 May, 2010 | Posted by: psn



BLURRED PHOTO- -ETHICS INTACT -- A Los Angeles resident who described himself as a reader of The L.A. Times questioned a photo from the Los Angeles May Day immigration rally: “Forgive me, but for some time now I thought it was the policy of The Times not to print "manipulated" news photographs of any kind. Looking at the subject image, it is obvious that techniques were used to achieve a "selective focus" effect. .." Note: In fact, this photo has not been altered. Read more. SOURCE: Deirdre Edgar; Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/readers/2010/05/photo-is-blurred-but-ethics-guidelines-arent.html
TAKEAWAY: What's real? We ask," Is this pottery hand-made or is it from Taiwan? We ask is this photo real? Sometimes, we are in doubt. -RE


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14 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn



The good, the bad and the ugly of Photoshop in today's media. With the advent of digital photography came Photoshop, giving photographers (and indeed anybody) the ability to modify and even change the situation portrayed in an image completely, more easily and believably. Now digital technology rules.
SOURCE: Alice Johnson, Deputy UAE Editor
http://gulfnews.com/business/general/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-photoshop-in-today-s-media-1.609241



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07 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn


PHOTOGRAPHY IS BECOMING ART -- Photoshop's soon-to-be-released "Content Aware" tool basically uses a computer algorithm to create content in a photograph to fill a blank area or cover up undesirable elements in the image. The process of removing and adding content was time consuming and sometimes obvious to a trained eye with previous versions of Photoshop. The coming tool is easy and seems almost impossible to recognize. Source: Joshua Trujillo
http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/199987.asp


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10 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn




PHOTO OR NON-PHOTO? -- When Is Photoshop too much? Some photographers always say: "Don't worry, I can solve it in Photoshop". In this instance, is he still a photographer or just a digital artist? What do you think?
Alton Design/Entertainment/Creative services: The question is meaningless until one defines the task and the priorities. Art photography? The priority is aesthetics and the issue is taste. No one cares how you get your result as long as it works artistically. Journalistic photography? Big difference. Now the priority is accuracy and the difference is ethics. One's contract with the viewer is different. Either way, it's time journalists quit making a fetish of Adobe's product. Photo processing and manipulation have been with us for years. The issues raised are the same no matter which tools are used.
SOURCE: Leonard Goh; CRAVE: http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2010/03/02/when-is-photoshop-too-much-/




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03 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn



SO WHAT IS REAL? -- Photoshop and Photography: When Is It Real?
"What Is a Photograph?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/technology/personaltech/25pogue-email.html?em
TAKEAWAY: If anyone ever doubted photography was art, the bets are all off. In the most recent generations, photography was meant to be real, thanks to the Leica camera and subsequent look-a-likes. Thanks to photoshop and digital, what is known as photography will now join the venerable art world of picture-making.


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27 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn



Wildlife photographer of the year stripped of his award. Judges say they are convinced José Luis Rodriguez staged prizewinning picture of wolf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/20/wolf-wildlife-photographer-award-stripped
TAKEAWAY: Animal photography is like documentary photography - what you see is "what was there."

photo: José Luis Rodriguez

captive wolf


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06 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn




SUPER SLIM -- Photographer refuses to apologize for Moore airbrush comments. Moore - who is alleged to have had multiple cosmetic surgery procedures in the past - posed for Anthony Citrano in November (09) and she graced the cover of America's W magazine this month (Dec09).
But the photo, which depicts the star looking super-slim in a revealing, skintight green dress, became the subject of controversy when Citrano claimed the picture had been heavily edited to make her hips and thighs appear smaller. Magazine editors denied the photo had been airbrushed and Moore posted a copy of what she claimed to be the original picture on her Twitter.com page. Her lawyer, Marty Singer, has since written to Citrano demanding a retraction and a public apology.
http://www.new-magazine.co.uk/latestnews/view/16643/Photographer-refuses-to-apologise-for-Moore-airbrush-comments/



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08 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn



DIGITAL NEGATIVES -- Beware: Slick Web Sites Use Trick Photography. Travel Web sites have taken the place of a trusted travel agent when it comes to shopping for a vacation. But a "20/20" investigation found that when it comes to the Web, what you see is oftentimes not what you get. '20/20' Investigates: Hotel Ads Online and Weight-Loss Photos Altered for Picture-Perfect Results. http://bit.ly/5sRyIZ


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02 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn




ORDINARY? -- Demi Moore's 'photoshopped' W cover: is it really her body?
Demi Moore's W cover has hit the news again after bloggers claimed her 'photoshopped' body actually belongs to catwalk model Anja Rubik. Fashion observers have pointed out the remarkable similarity between the magazine image and photographs of Rubik wearing the same Balmain corset dress on the runway in Paris earlier this year. A spokesman for W said that the magazine "did not do anything unusual or out of the ordinary on Demi Moore for the photo on the cover of W. Demi is an extraordinarily beautiful woman and we feel our cover reflects that."
SOURCE: The TELEGRAPH (UK) By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6651870/Demi-Moores-photoshopped-W-cover-is-it-really-her-body.html


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24 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn



NOT SO PRETTY -- Baby images airbrushed by magazines to make them more perfect Babies' eye colour, skin tone – and even the fat creases on their arms – are altered before the images are put on glossy magazine front covers. Magazines have been heavily criticised in the past for airbrushing images of women to make them look thinner . But this is the first time the industry has admitted using the technique to alter images of babies. http://bit.ly/8Z9IQ7




FAKE FOTO OF FIGHTER? Iconic photo that warned of fascism probably a fake. The controversy over Robert Capa’s Falling Soldier photograph continues. The famous shot showing a Spanish soldier captured at the very moment of his death is no stranger to controversy. So-called new evidence claims that the image was faked. SOURCE: George F. Will; Washington Post http://bit.ly/90MXIs



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14 Oct, 2009 | Posted by: psn



WHAT'S A PHOTO? -- Ethics as it relates to photography depends on the photographer’s intentions. It’s important to remember that distorting photos as an artistic pursuit differs from changing photos to discredit individuals or falsify information. At the same time, it’s difficult to determine the ethics behind photo manipulation because of the way that photos are read subjectively. Photography, after all, lacks a certain amount of objectivity in itself. The only thing that is certain is that the debate around photographic ethics will continue as technology continues to advance.
http://www.ancestrymagazine.com/2003/05/technology/questioning-photo-manipulation/
TAKEAWAY: The discussion goes on...

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02 Sep, 2009 | Posted by: psn



MYSTERY: -- Who Asked Flickr to Delete the Obama Joker? (Updated). Flickr managers are drawing criticism from some of their users after deleting a satirical photo that showed President Obama on the cover of Time made to look like the Joker. Flickr says it had to delete the image after receiving a takedown notice from a copyright holder. http://bit.ly/84FK6



SENSITIVE ALTERING -- Swift Apology From Microsoft Over Racial Photoshopping Microsoft has apologized for a photograph on the Polish version of its web site that was altered to put a white man's head on a black man's body. (Screen grabs below.)
http://bit.ly/38CUVo
http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Microsoft_Apologizes_for_Photo_Goof-up/551-105870-643.html




(see center person...)



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26 Aug, 2009 | Posted by: psn




FAKED PHOTO? New Doubts Raised Over Famous War Photo. Robert Capa’s Falling Soldier picture from the Spanish Civil War remains one of the most famous images of combat ever. It is also one of the most debated, with a long string of critics claiming that the photo, of a soldier seemingly at the moment of death, was faked. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/arts/design/18capa.html?_r=1


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08 Jul, 2009 | Posted by: psn





PROPAGANDA. Fake Photo Essay Wins Paris Match Prize. Paris Match magazine recently awarded its annual grand prize for photo reportage to a pair of art students who admitted they staged the whole photojournalistic project.
http://bit.ly/aNzuT


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05 May, 2009 | Posted by: psn



UP TO DATE @the WH -- The White House has started posting official Obama administration photographs on Flickr. High-res files are available for free use under a Creative Commons license.
But please note, although –as a taxpayer, you’ve already paid for them, they are not considered by the Creative Commons license to be public domain.


Here’s an example of how creative-types are using the photos for fun and enjoyment.
















IS THAT GOLF? Obama's Flickr Stream Is Encouraging Creative PhotoShopping. (The license does not include Public Domain permission.)

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WANNA BE CELEBRITY -- Fad Alert: Hire Your Own Paparazzi. Here's a non-traditional business idea: Fake paparazzi for hire. The pitch: Customers pay photographers to follow them around to make them look famous. Think bachelorette parties, show opening, etc.
http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009/04/fad-alert-hire-your-own-paparazzi.html


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03 Mar, 2009 | Posted by: psn




UNPHOTOSHOPPED ARE BETTER? -- Erin is skeptical of photoshopped images. “As a regular user of Photoshop, I’ve developed a highly-skeptical attitude toward the veracity of most photography I see these days — especially on the web...
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20090301/NEWS/903019975/1055/rss


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23 Dec, 2008 | Posted by: psn



PHOTOSHOP-UGH! Leibovitz Picture Declared "Worst Photograph Ever Made" We swear this isn't supposed to be pick-on-Annie week, but we have to share this: Mike Johnston, on his site The Online Photographer, has written a critique of what he calls "The Worst Photograph Ever Made." It's an image shot by Annie Leibovitz for the 2009 Lavazza espresso calendar. How bad is it? We'll let the picture speak for itself:
http://www.pdnpulse.com/2008/12/leibovitz-picture-declared-worst-photograph-ever-made.html



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17 Dec, 2008 | Posted by: psn



WHAT’S REAL IN PORTRAITURE? Digital photos may be pretty, but will vanity airbrush our memories too? “Those are not your dad’s hands!”, she shrieked. And she was right. They, most definitely, were not. It seemed that our over eager photographer had taken the art of doctoring his photos a little too far.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081217/OPINION/832378618/1080
TAKEAWAY: 100 years from now. Can our great grandchildren trust that the portrait of us is really a portrait of us? What are your thoughts on this?




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25 Nov, 2008 | Posted by: psn








PHOTO ENHANCEMENT BEFORE DIGITAL. War photography: Truth is the first casualty. Can war photography ever be trusted? Our critic sees an unsettling show about Robert Capa and his legacy. In 1954, he stepped on a roadside mine at a small turn-off in the first Indochina war, and died the death he seemed always to have been angling for. Oh, and in between he founded Magnum Photos, that alpha-male photographers’ club that still calls so many of the photographic shots in modern media.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article5197168.ece


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