Reuters drops photographer for digital manipulation

dadsm3 said:
Al Jazeera and Fox.....good luck.
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Unfortunately, only the truth hides behind the comedy of Jon Stewart more often, on this side of The Pond.

It's funny because it's true...

Maybe I should say the Truth is somewhere between The Onion (void) and The Daily Show (beaten to sarcasm)? 😉
 
Nachkebia said:
Honestly, it is very stupid, Digital is manipulation from begining till the end! well, images that goes through the wide or tele lens is also manipulated but opticly! what does it make difference?
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You got to be kidding...
 
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Basically he was sacked for ineptness.
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He was sacked for a bit more than that. He was caught lying to his employer.
Regardless of digital or analogue, it's still not acceptable to tell porkies in a profession. Except politics.
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Not quite; if he had done a good job of photoshop, nobody would have noticed, and he still would have been lying, but not sacked...
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Then he wouldn't have been sacked, because he wasn't inept. No offence duh! 😉

I guess that's why we have politicans to argue 😉


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A personal anecdote: I spent much of late 1990/early 1991 in Saudi Arabia reporting on the buildup of the '91 Gulf War for the Stars and Stripes newspaper for the U.S. military. At one point, the marketing department asked if I could take a photo of troops reading Stars and Stripes? I said I would if I could, but that distribution of the paper was so hit-and-miss that hardly any troops were getting copies of the paper. They asked if I'd carry a copy with me, hand it to a soldier, and take a photo. I said I wouldn't because that would be manipulating reality. A few days later, when I didn't send any photos, a wire service staff photographer stopped by and asked if I had an extra copy of our newspaper. I gave him one. He said thanks, he'd just gotten a request from Stars and Stripes via Frankfurt to get a wire photo of a soldier reading the newspaper in the desert. He sent the image a few hours later. Hardly a huge ethical conundrum, but I always thought it was interesting.
 
In a thread at lightstalkers.org some, while not condoning such actions, were a little sympathetic. They hypothesized the poor fellow was up for weeks with very little sleep in a stressful environment and was trying to hide sensor dust. He was, perhaps, not in the right state of mind and things got out of hand.
 
Vince,

You should have just taken your copy of the Stars and Stripes, put it on the ground with a giant Herseys bar, and taken a shot when the next GI picked it up 🙂

For what it is worth, I think you did the admirable thing.
 
VinceC said:
A few days later, when I didn't send any photos, a wire service staff photographer stopped by and asked if I had an extra copy of our newspaper. I gave him one. He said thanks, he'd just gotten a request from Stars and Stripes via Frankfurt to get a wire photo of a soldier reading the newspaper in the desert. He sent the image a few hours later. Hardly a huge ethical conundrum, but I always thought it was interesting.
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Excellent anecdote. I wonder if I would have done the same thing you did? I think, just playing Devil's Avocado here, that perhaps that other photographer didn't even think about the altering of reality, simply fulfilling a field request. A newbie? Who knows.

But it's always hard to abide by your principles and still meet your daily bread. Some make loopholes. It's a leap now, from Babe Ruth to Sosa and McGuire; the pressure is greater, the means more accesible, the demand louder, and the excuses more sophisticated.

Life's complicated. I like to apply Kant's rule(s) of will on things that are done and not done. What is in people's hearts, though...well. I can sing Kumbaya all I want, and nothing will change. I can only do as I say.
 
bobomoon said:
In a thread at lightstalkers.org some, while not condoning such actions, were a little sympathetic. They hypothesized the poor fellow was up for weeks with very little sleep in a stressful environment and was trying to hide sensor dust. He was, perhaps, not in the right state of mind and things got out of hand.
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Ah, yes, the Twinkie Defense.

We really don't know. Only he does. But I can tell you that when I clean dust, my pictures don't turn out like that.
 
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>> it takes courage not to make a picture, when $$$ are calling for us to lapse into commercial minded mediocrity. <<

Being on salary sure helps, too. You get paid even if you're on your high horse.
 
bobomoon said:
Apologies, Gabrielma. I thought you were referencing the original Twinkie defense.
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Hey, no problem, no need for apologies.

I started thinking...maybe he did snap, after getting all those reviews by all those easily-distracted critics, that say "that car is distracting", "the plume of smoke on the right is distracting", "the building on the bottom is distracting", "the empty space on the top is distracting", "the grayness of the smoke is distracting".

Those easily-distracted "critiquers" drive me cuckoo.
 
1) The guy's Lebanese.
2) His dust reduction 'adjustments' were always more sensational than the original.
3) He's already shown to be shamefully using a dead child as a prop in different situations for propaganda purposes.
In my view he's not much better than the terrorists who bomb civilians then hide behind women and children, then wave their bodies in the air deploring the Jews. He certainly is an accomplice.
 
HOo HOo! HOLD IT THERE!!!
I meant aesthetical manipulation!!! not anyway of changing a truth or fact or act!!!! (god forbid)
P.S. I work at MBC group which owns AL-arabia (Arabic news channel) but thanks god I am not related to anykind of news 🙂 I am a broadcasting designer 🙂
 
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Carrotblog said:
Because you're not worshipping reuters with a capital R for a start 😉
Secondly, you're underage 😉
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I'm 19! since when was that underage? 😀
 
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