Photoshop and Photography: When Is It Real? – Pogue's Posts

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Photoshop and Photography: When Is It Real?

If you were running a photography contest, at what point would you draw the line and say “That’s not photography anymore?”

via Pogue’s Posts Blog: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/photoshop-and-photography-when-is-it-real/

the editorial is about the magazine’s annual Reader’s Photos Contest. This year, in two of the categories, the winners were what the magazine calls composites, and what I call Photoshop jobs.

One photo shows a motorcyclist being chased by a tornado; another shows a flock of seagulls wheeling around a lighthouse in amazingly photogenic formation. Neither scene ever actually existed as photographed.