Blogger "Lekhni" of The Imagined Universe brought to my attention a New York Times article about how it is an Indian tradition to "Photoshop" people into their wedding pictures.
It's a curious read, no doubt. Take a look and post your comments below. What do you think? Does the good professor who was quoted in the article just getting it wrong, or did the NYTimes goof up a quote?
From my perspective, as a documentary wedding photographer, I do not cut and paste people's heads or other body parts into images. Where this is ethically okay by me to do would be when the image is a posed portrait, and someone in the frame is invariably looking away when the rest of the group is looking directly at me. That's one reason I try and capture multiple images of the same group.
Just in case you or your guests are temporarily distracted and aren't quite in the zone, I do allow myself some room to manipulate the original image, to produce an image (a composite, really) that will be much more pleasing to look at than the original. |
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