The Sacramento Bee published a photograph taken during the Galt Winter Bird Festival of a snowy egret grabbing for a frog just caught by a great egret. This week we learned the photograph had been digitally altered by the photographer in violation of our standards
Tag: Bryan Patrick
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Photo Manipulation Scandal Follows Same Old Script
Photo Manipulation Scandal Follows Same Old Script | PDNPulse
Surely we all know the script by now: A newspaper photographer gets caught manipulating a photo, the paper runs an apology with a statement about the newspaper’s zero-tolerance policy and a notice that the photographer has been fired; a trade organization
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/photo-manipulation-scandal-follows-same-old-course.html
The contrarian this time is On the Media host Bob Garfield, writing for The Guardian. He satirizes Patrick as “the Great Satan” and says “let him suffer the fate of the frog!” He then raises that pesky question: “Don’t all journalists alter reality?” Finally, he asks this rhetorical humdinger: “[d]id he [Patrick] misrepresent the story, or did he perhaps just make it clearer?”
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Sacramento Bee Fires Bryan Patrick Over Manipulated Photographs
Today readers of The Bee learned that editors investigating Patrick’s archives found two additional images that had been digitally altered, also a violation of The Bee’s ethics standards
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Accused Of Digitally Altering Photo, Sacramento Bee Suspends Veteran Photographer
When published on the Bee’s front page on Sunday as part of a two-picture combo, the images carried a byline for longtime Bee staff photographer Bryan Patrick.
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A Bee photographer's work garners more honors
Bryan Patrick picked up another Photographer of the Year trophy the first weekend in April, and a few days later The Bee’s front page reminded us why.
Patrick’s photos from the Olympic torch relay and protests in San Francisco on April 9 stood out as they often do: for storytelling and technical excellence, but even more for showing the news as you would have seen it had you been on the scene.
Check it out here.
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俗画 zokuga 俗画: Bryan Patrick
Congrats to Bryan Patrick for winning the San Francisco Bay Area Photographers Association photog of the year award. Well deserved.
The Bee put up a gallery of his portfolio
Check it out here.