Monday, January 26, 2009

Photoshop and photojournalism

Tuesday we're talking a bit about photo editing, so I just wanted to give you a couple links. Different papers will have different standards when it comes to exactly what you can and can't do, but here is a story of a photojournalist who was fired for over-manipulating his photos.

The NPPA code of ethics is pretty vague: As journalists, we believe that credibility is our greatest asset. In documentary photojournalism, it is wrong to alter the content of a photograph in any way (electronically or in the darkroom) that deceives the public.

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