Another Photographer fired for altering images

Saw this on CNN. Can't blame them for firing him. He did a really bad job altering his images. http://www.cnn.com …rs.photog.reut/​index.html

that's really interesting. I have been unable to view the video as I am work. However I don't blame them for the action that they are taking. They are in the business of reporting the news as it is. Not as they wont it to be.

However in saying that I wonder how offen they crop a photo to remove something that they think shouldn't be there, which can in effect change the meaning of an image?

I just read about it on Fox News too...

http://www.foxnews.com​/story/0,2933,207352,0​0.html

Jon.

Dust that would be visible on that image? I think not.

He souldnt be fired for altering the images if it were true that he was removing dust... he should be shot for blatant dodgy use of clone-stamp!

Sounds reasonable to me. He's a PJ there to report on the facts not use PS to come up with his own fantasies.

haha he really did do a terrible job at doing that. looks like he clone stamped a few dozen times

I have to agree with you.... i'm no photoshop expert but i belive even i could have done it better... Well, he got what he deserved!!!

"If you play with fire, you will eventualy get burned!!"

This particular photographer has several instances where he has "staged" incidents in relation to the Israel/Lebonon situation, including the use of the same characters in at least 3 incidents in which the same young girl was classified as dead, injured, and being loaded into an ambulance. It was pretty obvious that this particular reporter had a strong bias in this situation.

Lots of this going around in the mainstream media, unfortunately. Seems that they want to "create" the story instead of just reporting it.

What crappy editing in that CNN pic. What was that guy using, Microsoft Paint?

Its a safe thing to assume everyone is trying to sell a POV.

Thats my POV anyway.

Did you buy it?

yep, 100% of it. well almost anyway. Everyone has a POV. Strange as it seems there are some out there that do try and bring out information with having a POV. the main problem is they are normaly hidden by those with their own POV. Or the content is edited with someone else POV.

Unless you consider yourself an artist and then your art is your POV.

More photo manipulation by a press photographer

Here is a link to the article...
http://www.msnbc.msn.c​om/id/13165165/

This guy has some pretty poor cloning skills. Totally unneccessary on his part.
Now it would have been a much better picture if he cloned in a couple of Israeli jets.

The CNN article has more background.
It was no accident as he has also apparently added flares to an Israeli Jet in another picture.

http://www.cnn.com …rs.photog.reut/​index.html

Personally I would use PS CS2's spot heal tool to remove dust spots not the clone tool. He would have to have PS 6 or earlier to not have at least the heal tool.

They should have fired the editor, too. The cloning is so obvous I'm surprised the editor didn't catch it before it was ever published.

PacAce wrote:
They should have fired the editor, too. The cloning is so obvous I'm surprised the editor didn't catch it before it was ever published.

Second this motion!

"There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image,"

That about says it.