What Would You Do If You Thought You Saw a Child Bride?
Category: Ethics
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Pay For Play – The Digital Journalist
A producer for the ABC News program “Good Morning America” reportedly put Caylee Anthony’s grandparents up in an expensive hotel in December 2008, about the time that the child’s remains were discovered and the search for the missing child turned into a murder investigation.
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For Your Entertainment: A Domestic Violence Photo
We support an aggressive press and TMZ is probably within its First Ammendment rights. But we can’t think of any justification for publishing this photo.
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A Photo Editor – Mark Seliger Rip Off
It appears that Mexico has its very own Mark Seliger… well, they have a photographer who bought Mark’s Physiognomy book and tried to knock-off many of the setups for Mexican television company Televisa’s book featuring their on-air talent. The photos were taken by Gabriel Saavedra.
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Didn’t Make It To The Inauguration? Just Pretend You Did.
go to MyInauguralPhoto.com, powered by online photo editing software provider FotoFlexer, and pretend you were there, right behind the new president of the United States as he was sworn in.
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International Photography Contest 2008 – National Geographic
Photo and caption by Shibnath Basu, India.
CLICK NOTE: I found a lot of these winners to appear highly ‘Shopped. Can someone please explain to me how the clouds in this National Geographic International Photography Contest winning photograph are true reflections? Sure looks like a hideous photoshop job to me.These shallow waters are mainly famous for flamingos at Nal Sarovar near Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The picture shows the reflection of clouds on water.
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PDNPulse: Greenberg, McCain and 'Gotcha' Portraiture: Do We Need a Law?
Program host Bob Garfield uses Jill Greenberg’s controversial portrait session with John McCain as a point of departure for raising provocative questions about editorial portraiture in general: Why aren’t editorial portrait photographers held to the same journalistic standards as other journalists? And where’s the line between a photographer’s prerogative and a ‘gotcha’ image?
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Wandering Light: Stolen
Whenever a photography injustice surfaces in the news, I can’t seem to figure out what the perpetrator was thinking. Digital manipulation, falsifying information and copyright infringement. Which comes to my current situation.
On April 27, 2008, I spoke of a random encounter that got me very excited. A new friend who just happened to be from the same town in the United States where I grew up. Lee Mackay Turner showed me that my character judgement needs some serious work.
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The Politics of the Retouched Headshot – The Atlantic (October 16, 2008)
Last week, Fox News set off a short-lived controversy when it attacked Newsweek for not retouching the magazine’s larger-than-life cover photo of Sarah Palin. Calling the headshot “ridiculously unfair to her,” anchor Megyn Kelly declared that “any respectable magazine should be doing a little retouching.”
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Vice Magazine: THANKS A LOT, THE NEW YORK POST
Some mobsters allegedly lured a caretaker into the very haunted mansion he caretakes, where he was stabbed, drowned, chopped up, and burned. The only way it could get any worse for this guy is if a terrible/amazing newspaper took his decapitated head and transposed it onto the body of Casper the friendly ghost wafting out of the house in which he was murdered. Annnnnnnd, that’s exactly what happened.
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Get More Attractive Now! (and you can too) – A Picture's Worth
The New York Times is reporting on a new piece of software developed by Israeli computer scientists that take a photo and make it more attractive based on focus group research they conducted with 68 men and women. The “beautification engine”makes minor adjustments of symmetry, skin tone, and other factors that have been associated with “beauty.”
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About that McCain Photo (September 14, 2008) – About that McCain Photo
Like others at the Atlantic, I was appalled to read about the actions of Jill Greenberg, the freelance photographer who took the cover portrait that illustrates my article about John McCain. Greenberg doctored photographs of McCain she took during her Atlantic-arranged shoot, which took place last month in Las Vegas. She has posted these doctored photographs on her website, which you can go find yourself, if you must. Suffice it to say that her “art” is juvenile, and on occasion repulsive. This is not the issue, of course; the issue is that she betrayed this magazine, and disgraced her profession.
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PDNPulse: How Jill Greenberg Really Feels About John McCain
When The Atlantic called Jill Greenberg, a committed Democrat, to shoot a portrait of John McCain for its October cover, she rubbed her hands with glee.
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State of the Art: Did Fake Photos Skew Georgian War Coverage?
CLICK NOTE: After looking at all of the photos in question, this looks to me like a bullshit accusation.Several blogs are reporting that images by wire-service photographers from the conflict between Russia and Georgia were staged.
Check it out here.
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I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop. – NYTimes.com
REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester. But removing him from a dozen years of vacation photographs took only hours, with some deft mouse work from a willing friend who was proficient in Photoshop, the popular digital-image editing program.
Like a Stalin-era technician in the Kremlin removing all traces of an out-of-favor official from state photos, the friend erased the husband from numerous cherished pictures taken on cruises and at Caribbean cottages, where he had been standing alongside Ms. Horn, now 50, and other traveling companions.
Check it out here.
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Photography as a Weapon – Errol Morris – Zoom – New York Times Blog
As almost everyone knows by now, various major daily newspaper published, on July 10, a photograph of four Iranian missiles streaking heavenward; then Little Green Footballs (significantly, a blog and not a daily newspaper) provided evidence that the photograph had been faked. Later, many of those same papers published a Whitman’s sampler of retractions and apologies. For me it raised a series of questions about images.[1] Do they provide illustration of a text or an idea of evidence of some underlying reality or both? And if they are evidence, don’t we have to know that the evidence is reliable, that it can be trusted?
Check it out here.
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Beijing Olympic 2008 opening ceremony giant firework footprints 'faked' – Telegraph
As the ceremony got under way with a dramatic, drummed countdown, viewers watching at home and on giant screens inside the Bird’s Nest National Stadium watched as a series of giant footprints outlined in fireworks processed gloriously above the city from Tiananmen Square.
What they did not realise was that what they were watching was in fact computer graphics, meticulously created over a period of months and inserted into the coverage electronically at exactly the right moment.Check it out here.
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Believe it or not, these are fake — chicagotribune.com
We’ve seen some really fantastic videos online lately.
How to use your cell phone to pop popcorn. A professional kicker putting a football between the uprights from 110 yards away. A ball girl making a remarkable catch as she scales the outfield wall. And a tornado ripping through Nebraska.
All these videos have one thing in common: They didn’t happen.
Well, the twister happened, but news organizations that used the video retracted it Thursday. According to The Associated Press, which distributed the clip, a storm chaser claimed the footage as a manipulated version of a video shot four years ago.
Check it out here.
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In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many – The Lede
As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a fact that had not emerged before the photo appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites.
Check it out here.
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State of the Art: More Fallout Over Fox News Photo Story
Last week I posted a little something on the controversy surrounding Fox News and it’s decision to doctor photos of a New York Times reporter and editor. The reporter, Jacques Steinberg, had written a piece about an apparent weakening in Fox News ratings. The doctored images made him and his editor, Steven Reddicliffe, look bad in a silly way—yellowed teeth, big noses, etc.
Check it out here.