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09/04/2004 04:13:53 PM · #1 |
Originally posted by PaulMdx:
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
The whole 'photojournalism' editing issues are quite complex. I would not hesitate to say that a majority of journalism images you see are edited beyond our 'basic editing rules' here. |
If that's the case then I'm both concerned by PJ ethics, and also stand corrected. :-) |
There is nothing unethical about what I have seen. The people editing these photographs made them much more presentable than they were straight out of the camera. Our basic editing rules here at DPC, however, would not allow this type of editing since dodge, burn, and clone/heal are used.
Photojournalists are traditionally required to NOT make changes to a photo that modify the original intent of the image. A photojournalist gets in trouble when 'reality' is changed in such a way that the image mis-represents whatever they were looking at to begin with. Dodge/burn and clone/heal are simple tools that get used to 'clean up' a photograph and make it more appealing in some way to the editor or viewer.
As I sat with the head photographer at the local newspaper last night going through the photos that we made, We did a lot of dodge/burn modifications on several photos that were printed in today's paper. We also did some minor clone/heal operations on several minor spots in the photographs. These were photographs of football action and fan activity. None of the edits performed changed anything about the 'reality' of the photograph. The changes were made for the purpose of making the photograph more appealing overall. You can always argue that clone/heal changes 'reality', but a photojournalist definition of 'reality' is different. They seem to understand the concept without the nitpicking of the detail. They know when the photo is being changed beyond what is true and what is false. It's more an issue of 'misrepresentation' that 'reality' it seems.
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09/04/2004 04:29:09 PM · #2 |
In light of the other thread, I would like to apologise to you again John. I wasn't trying to get to you, I was just using your quote as a starting point. I would just like to add that what you have put in this thread is right on. As long as PJ's are just using the basic edditing tools, no ethics are being crossed.
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