Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHERS; Leicas
From: Afterswift@aol.com
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:59:28 EDT

In a message dated 9/5/03 10:35:19 AM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes:

<< digital technology has worsened the picture by making it very easy to 
further blur the distinctions between the reporting, and
government-spin, 
entertainment-advertising media

HOW? >>
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By modifying normal stock images to sell products in magazines. The same 
thing is done in government report illustrations and it's rampant in advertising 
and entertainment. Just look at the posters and the card ads on buses, etc. 
There isn't an untouched up photo in any of those venues. There's a promo shot 
obviously enhanced of a buxom working girl that is used in the Times to push 
retirement stocks. Digital editing is used all over the place -- including even 
on the LUG. I attribute that form of modification to mostly make an image 
clearer on our monitors. 

br

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