Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 06, 2012, 04:50:56 pm
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Sacramento Bee fires Bryan Patrick for photo manipulation (http://Sacramento Bee fires Bryan Patrick for photo manipulation)
There are no rules, thus no cheating; we are all artists (like in "Picasso and I walk into a bar...), thus anything goes... ;)
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Seems to me he was correctly fired for violating his employer's policy several times. I don't see this as much of a Photoshop issue other than than being the tool he used. Something like using a pen to fill in a false business expense voucher. Should be a warning to other photojournalists to sharpen their Photoshop work to be less detectable.
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Yeah, I don't see this as any different from a newspaper writer making up a story. When that has happened in recent years, the writer has gotten the sack, and rightly so.
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Here's an opinion from a nature photography (rather than photojournalism) viewpoint, coming to the same conclusion: Image Manipulation and Nature Photography (http://www.natureandphotography.com/?p=847) by Rob Sheppard
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the manipulation was so minimal as to make thier choice to fire the guy laughable.
http://www.poynter.org/extra/bopvsap.gif
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I think that a press photographer manipulating an image to make it look better is no different from a writer choosing to only tell part of the story, part of the truth, in order to support a particular (political usually) opinion that he/she has.
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Here is a link to the photo in question.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/01/4232790/setting-it-straight-photo-manipulated.html (http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/01/4232790/setting-it-straight-photo-manipulated.html)
The photo Michael West posted is one Mr. Patrick received an award for. It is of the Auburn fire a couple of years ago, but it is another he is accused of altering.
Mr. Patrick was fired for violating the papers policy against digitally altering photographs.
Rich