Photographer fired?
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- quamb0
i hate the idea that anyone can be a photographer with photoshop.
am agreeing with latimes- a slight twist of the truth is not what we want from the 'news'.
- Sapphire0
half truth, is a whole lie
- ********0
this is journalism, not advertising photography..
so I think, tho painful and sad for the photographer, you don't have much of a chance defending his motivations for altering the photograph. It's unacceptable, most certainly in war situations like these.
I have been working as a press photographer for years, and I know some colleague got in really serious trouble for altering a photograph of a soccermatch for placing a ball in the picture several years ago...he had bad luck as he just missed the decisive shot on goal in the game...he was in time for the action but the ball already flew out of his vision.
Some colleagues still talk about it since he got sooo busted as editors found out the ball was actually there but half hidden behind one of the players, so there were 2 balls in the pic all of a sudden.
Anyway, this is war photography, something of global concern....any alterations of the news coming from there is unacceptable imho.