Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Toledo Blade's Detrich Resigns Over Digitally Altered Photograph
I think this guy warrants a slap on the hand because he should know, as a veteran staff photographer, that altering photographs for publication isn't right. But resigning seems a little too extreme. Regarding his quote, I don't think taking out some anonymous person's leg hurt anybody (maybe the person whose legs were edited out?) Unless he is guilty of altering numerous other photographs, which is what it seems, then he should resign. Maybe these are the sort of issues we will have to deal with as the digital age is progressing. I don't find anything wrong with editing the legs out to have a better picture, it didn't hurt anybody to do that. It would be wrong if he submitted the edited photograph to try to win some "best photograph" prize. It's interesting to note how sour he is about what he used to do and also his defeatist attitude.
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do you have a copy of that photograph? i think it depends but i dont kno because I haven't seen the photo. was it really altering? What do you mean when he edited out the person's leg? If it was just cropped, I dont think it's that bad.. but if he did something to it then there's an ethical issue there.. But I have to see the picture..
as I said in class, I feel as though this sort of attitude is very dangerous because if you allow editing out the legs, where do you draw the line?
better to draw the line far back (absurdly so perhaps...) so as to make it clear cut.
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