Our friends at lynda.com have put together a great video essay discussing the role of Photoshop and image manipulation and its place in photo journalism. There are a lot of thought provoking points in this pieces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R47xZwxF1T4
Can you crop an image?
It depends… sometimes cropping can change meaning or remove something that was there. People debate this within journalism circles.
I sure hope so but it seems that they have gone completely over to the dark side.
Reblogged this on Ideas and commented:
For my fellow aspiring photojournalists, i thought this is very vital is pursuing our career. it is incredibly educative
In the film days you cropped, burned, dodged and it was all accepted. Editors would even cut up the picture if they wanted to removed someone or something from the picture.
Now you do any of that and you burn in hell.
Can you crop an image?
It depends… sometimes cropping can change meaning or remove something that was there. People debate this within journalism circles.
I sure hope so but it seems that they have gone completely over to the dark side.
Reblogged this on Ideas and commented:
For my fellow aspiring photojournalists, i thought this is very vital is pursuing our career. it is incredibly educative
In the film days you cropped, burned, dodged and it was all accepted. Editors would even cut up the picture if they wanted to removed someone or something from the picture.
Now you do any of that and you burn in hell.