Cropping news ?
Amateur photographers like me crop images to enhance parts of the image or to cut off unnecessery distractions. Can journalists do the same to hide parts of the story ?
Check out this deconstruction of the Falluja and Madrid bombing photos.
Also, check out the Best of Still Photojournalism 2004 awards photo gallery
The Snaps from Best of Still Photojournalism are amazing
i came across this site sometime back..somehow didnt appeal to me quite as much..
deconstruction of Falluja and Madrid
I dont know how the newspapers are supposed to draw a line between sticking to the truth and trying to soften the blow which such graphic pictures can have. However, I do think that they should always categorically state that pictures have been altered. A cliche “A picture speaks a thousand words”
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hmm that’s a debatable question..then they will have to tell you what got altered as well??
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A far simpler option would be to present the news as it is. After all, thats what reporting the news is all about. Fact, and not some altered version of it.
Sigh. Now if only that were the case….
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I still disagree. If they think the pictures are too graphic, they should not print it at all ( exactly what all indian papers did ), and should state that its too graphic.
Talking an image and actually removing parts of it is going too far. Cropping the image… hmm .. I don’t know
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Sigh. Now if only that were the case….
If they actually go to an extent to remove parts of an image using photoshop, that’s misleading people and ‘altering’ the truth.
NOW thats a serious crime AFAIK.
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Dealing in binaries (0/1) is so much easier…
Amateur photographers like me crop images to enhance parts of the image or to cut off unnecessery distractions.
Even some of the most professional photographers crop their images or modify. Cropping has nothing to do with professional or amateur, it is more a way to show what exactly you want communicated with the photograph. Like cropping out unnecessary objects around a subject which might distract the focus on the actual subject. The links to photos you mention are more about digital manipulation which actually “change” the original picture.
In case of Falluja incident, they cropped the image 🙂
Nada 😛
From the Falluja link – “Both papers, however, rendered the ashes more indistinct than they were in the original pictures.”, more a case of smudging that cropping.
toi smudged the sahara logo from the cricketers shirts, when they won the finals @ lahore, & were featured on the front page.
they suck anyway.
Ditto
TOI sucks in every aspect. I like cricket and all but , whole of last week the front page was filled only with cricket. kinda annoying..
Bangalore Times has some pretty good *news*…
😉
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i disagree not all manipulation of images leads to misinformation…
Its a thin line to walk manipulating without significantly altering the image.
I know!
Finally, someone who agrees with me. I *want* to know that kids’ parents find Britney Spearss shows too raunchy and indecent. It’s my fundamental right!
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Touche’!