{"id":11027,"date":"2005-12-31T08:45:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T08:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2005\/12\/how-far-would-you-go-to-get-the-shot.html"},"modified":"2005-12-31T08:45:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T08:45:20","slug":"how_far_would_you_go_to_get_the_shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/31\/how_far_would_you_go_to_get_the_shot\/","title":{"rendered":"How far would you go to get the shot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often heard photographers discuss the ethics of altering a photo&#8211;debating, say, whether it&#8217;s acceptable to use Photoshop to remove a Coke can from a landscape shot.  Had they noticed the can before taking the shot, of course, they&#8217;d have kicked it out of the frame.  These heated discussions of the &#8220;purity&#8221; of the captured image strike me as a little sterile, especially when great pre-digital masters <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.photoblogs.org\/wiki\/Postprocessing\">altered images freely<\/a>.<br \/>\nSo here&#8217;s a potentially meatier topic:  Would you set up a great shot at the expense of personal injury to others?  And to what end?<br \/>\nPhotographer Liu Tao has been accused of lying in wait to capture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1399668.html\">shots of a man wiping out<\/a> when his bike hit a submerged pothole.  He defends himself by noting that his images embarrassed the government into fixing the pothole, and that without the change people would still be getting hurt.  Photography <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/shared\/spl\/hi\/pop_ups\/05\/asia_pac_enl_1115306756\/html\/1.stm\">can<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subcin.com\/titicut.html\">effect<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/ktca\/americanphotography\/features\/social_essay.html\">social change<\/a>, but where&#8217;s the line between documentarian and participant, and how does one know when to cross it?  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/12\/27\/photographer_arreste.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often heard photographers discuss the ethics of altering a photo&#8211;debating, say, whether it&#8217;s acceptable to use Photoshop to remove a Coke can from a landscape shot. Had they noticed the can before taking the shot, of course, they&#8217;d have kicked it out of the frame. These heated discussions of the &#8220;purity&#8221; of the captured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}