what is a manip?although i don't normally shoot for reuters -- i'm an ap guy -- anyone who wants to know what are industry standards in terms of what is and what is not photo manipulation can check out these guidelines.
it was important for reuters to make clear determinations as one of their photographers faked some photographs during the last Israeli-Lebanese situation.
those guidelines are pretty much echoed by the NPPA and their digital ethics guidelines.
to quote the above reuters link:
ALLOWED:
Cropping
Adjustment of Levels to histogram limits
Minor colour correction
Sharpening at 300%, 0.3, 0
Careful use of lasso tool
Subtle use of burn tool
Adjustment of highlights and shadows
Eye dropper to check/set gray
NOT ALLOWED:
Additions or deletions to image
Cloning & Healing tool (except dust)
Airbrush, brush, paint
Selective area sharpening
Excessive lightening/darkening
Excessive colour tone change
Auto levels
Blurring
Eraser tool
Quick Mask
In-camera sharpening
In-camera saturation styles
I looked in my hard-copy AP manual and almost all of the above noted.
when i say something is manipulated i am going by professionally accepted and MAN-FUCKING-DATED rules for photographs submitted to magazines and newspapers via global wire services.
in fact, just so you know, when you do an editorial shoot ... you submit your RAWS to the a.d. or art assistant or photo editor. if the work requires manipulation, they hire a retoucher or specifically instruct the photographer what or what not to change via photoshop.
back in the day we had to submit our entire take ... on film.
for the most part ... film doesn't lie.
see ... back in the day ... if you didn't come within 1/3 stop in your exposure ... well ... you got a talking to.
as an assistant i watched an ad agency account exec berate a photographer for a 1/4 stop underexposure. in front f the a.d. in front of the client.
in front of me.
must have sucked ... having your assistant watch all that shit.
that'd suck.
and ... yeah ... that was back in the day.
like ten years ago.
now ... as long as you're "in the ballpark" digitally ... you're there.
lotsa experts out there now!
just a year ago i watched another photographer swap a "better example of someone's eye" to a much better photo where the eye sucked.
i lost all respect.
in fact, for the most part ... i know that the photos on the covers of most monthlies and weeklies ... are, in fact, manipulated to high hell.
they are now.
they were then.
whether it was a digital capture now or a highly manipulated scitex of a chrome.
i remember when someone sent me a link to a retoucher. i was fucking amazed at her work. what was interesting is that i went to her portfolio and saw another pretty well-known photographer's work...
when i look at studio stuff i know what to look for to determine EXACTLY what they did.
look at 2,000,000 images ... your own ... and you'll come pretty close.
so ... i always said to myself, "how the fuck did he do that? it's not possible."
there was no way i would ask him not that i would understand his ass through the thick art-centric accent.
when i saw that portfolio of retouched work -- with before and after examples -- i lost respect. it went from friggin' magical to "nice use of that over-exposed softbox shot."
ya' know ... i understand if you don't have the money to make intensely out-of-focus negative spaces or backgrounds with a lens.
but ... if you shot it f/8 and you want us to this it was f/2.0 or more ...
it's a manip.
hope you're all well!
and ... very happy to hear the last journal was helpful to some of you.
early call time.
i gotta sleep.
soon, at least.
cheers from the very temperate los angeles,
Chris
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The guidelines are actually a good idea for deviantART, it would end the debate for good for a lot of us. I normally look at the impact the technique had on the image, but doing that is purely subjective.
Thanks for the guidelines though
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I think this is a wakeup call (for me too) for alot of people.
I stopped using blurring a long time ago, thank goodness.
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when i hear this or that on this site about manip ... i pretty much laugh.
no worries, mate!
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i personally state every time i b/w-ize a colour image.
there are a ton of people on here with a shitload of pageviews who i know manip the fuck out of their material and everyone thinks they're gods.
i don't say shit.
i should but ... whatever.
i just laugh when i think what they would have done with a roll of velvia ...
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in the case of film, you can still affect color saturation/contrast during exposure if you pre-expose with a grey card. would that be considered manip?
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so much of photography is edited now it's really hard to see what's actual photography anymore.
and that's what i love about film.
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