Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo

bewert writes "A sign of things to come? Is this kind of thing happening without anyone catching it? This short article notes that war photog Brian Walski was fired for combining elements from two photos to make one with 'better composition'. Here is the 'Editor's Note' detailing the transgression. It's not really highlighted on their front page ;) I wonder how often this type of Photoshopping is done without anyone noticing it? To paraphrase Pink Floyd, "Mother, should I trust the government?"..." Another submitter points out an article examining digitally altered magazine covers. Slashdot has done several stories on unnoticeable digital alterations; here's 1, 2, 3 old stories to peruse.

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Link to the photos

[VT_hawkeye]

Little Green Footballs has the before(1), before(2) and after shots here.

Re:Here is a quick image analysis quiz

[ivan256]

Load them up in two tabs in mozilla and switch between the two. You're right that the boy was removed from the second one, but he was added to the first one. Either that, or he is transparent to light, and emits a funky darkness haze in front him and under his arm...