{"id":1334,"date":"2011-06-21T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T15:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2011-06-21T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T15:37:37","slug":"nuj-photoshop-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"NUJ Photoshop Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingsoflondon.co.uk\/Library\/londonfreelance01.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Video still by Jason N Parkinson;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Photoshop by A N Incompetent?<\/small><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine the reason for the latest bit of crude manipulation of images to come to my attention, found rather surprisingly in the latest <em>Freelance<\/em>, the newsletter of the London Freelance Branch of the National Union of Journalists.<\/p>\n<p>There I am, standing at the left of the picture &#8211; from a video still by Jason N Parkinson, wearing a jacket and with two Nikons around my neck, but with my head apparently swathed in bandages. I really didn&#8217;t think I was so ugly I had to be photoshopped out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/05\/03\/20110503-d0156.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was there and taking pictures and was making no secret about it &#8211; writing about it here on my blog and even getting quoted in &#8216;Amateur Photography&#8217; so there was certainly no need for anonymity. It seems purely a gratuitous example of the very kind of manipulation that we regard as unethical. Given its crudity it might of course even have been simply the result of a careless mouse gesture.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the protest in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/05\/may.htm#phnat\">Photographers City Hall Flashmob<\/a> on\u00a0 My London Diary.<\/p>\n<p>A week ago I went to the London launch of the booklet* about the successful\u00a0 &#8216;<em>I&#8217;m a Photographer, Not A Terrorist&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0 campaign that the World Press Freedom Day flashmob at City Hall was a part of.<\/p>\n<p>And here, completely unretouched, are a couple of pictures I took at the launch event. And no, I wasn&#8217;t wearing bandages around my head that night either.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/06\/14\/20110614-d0220.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/06\/14\/20110614-d0226.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and outside on the pavement after the speeches:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/06\/14\/20110614-d0417.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Thanks to whoever took this in the gloom on my Fuji X100<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Though shortly after the unadorned picture of me was taken I could have done with some bandages as I turned around suddenly and went flying as my shin contacted bloodily with the sharpened concrete edge of a street flower container. Probably I should sue.<\/p>\n<p>*<small>copies free if you send an A5 SAE with 2 stamps on it to :<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small> <\/small><small>Photographer Not a Terrorist<br \/>\n308-312 Gray&#8217;s Inn Road<br \/>\nLondon WC1X 8DP<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video still by Jason N Parkinson;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Photoshop by A N Incompetent? I can&#8217;t imagine the reason for the latest bit of crude manipulation of images to come to my attention, found rather surprisingly in the latest Freelance, the newsletter of the London Freelance Branch of the National Union of Journalists. There I am, standing at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NUJ Photoshop Shock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}