{"id":21,"date":"2006-09-23T08:55:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T08:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/ethics\/ethics-image-cheating\/"},"modified":"2010-07-25T01:28:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T00:28:20","slug":"ethics-image-cheating","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/ethics\/ethics-image-cheating","title":{"rendered":"Photoshopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Image processing software offers a lot of opportunities for image modification<\/p>\n<p>Generally, this is work that could have been done in the darkroom with film images, but it would have taken non-professionals days, rather than minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my photos would fall within the rules laid down in the &#8220;Adjusting your image&#8221;<br \/>\nparagraph in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/wildphoto\/comp-rules.html\">BBC \/ NHM Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a> competition <em>(if only they were good enough to enter &#8230;)<\/em>, in that adjustments (white-balance curves, exposure adjustment etc.) are applied to the whole of the image.<\/p>\n<p>I now try to &#8220;tag&#8221; manipulation in Lightroom, and this should feed through. It&#8217;s not foolproof, but generally I&#8217;ll limit adjustments &#8211; other than those above &#8211; to cropping the image. This now shows in the &#8220;Photo metadata&#8221; box<\/p>\n<p>Before this I used the filename to show adjustments. There are still some albums to be updated, but here&#8217;s what I used to do &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Other adjustments can be identified by a suffix to the filename, preceded by an underbar.<br \/>\nThis may be followed by a version number (where &#8211; for example &#8211; multiple crops are made).<br \/>\nThese categories have been adapted from the submission guidelines on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seapics.com\/information\/photographers\/submission_guidelines.html#CaptioningAbbreviations\">SeaPics<\/a> photo agency website, which was really helpful. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">&#8220;_C&#8221; &#8211; the image has been &#8220;cropped&#8221; (i.e. outer elements have been excluded) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">&#8220;_M&#8221; &#8211; Areas of the image have been &#8220;retouched&#8221; digitally.<br \/>\nThis would typically include removing backscatter or smudges on the lens <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">&#8220;_DM&#8221; &#8211; digitally manipulated &#8211; e.g. &#8220;cloning&#8221; out a brightly coloured fin <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">&#8220;_DC&#8221; &#8211; If I ever do produce composite photos (made up of two images), this is how they&#8217;ll be labelled<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<address>updated 25\/7\/2010<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image processing software offers a lot of opportunities for image modification Generally, this is work that could have been done in the darkroom with film images, but it would have taken non-professionals days, rather than minutes. Most of my photos would fall within the rules laid down in the &#8220;Adjusting your image&#8221; paragraph in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/538"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}