Links from Student for Online

Hey Katy,

Here is a great post about newspapers and blogs with plenty of great links to check out and some good comments from the former director of photography of men's journal

http://aphotoeditor.com/2008/03/31/newspapers-and-bloggers/.

And another one called Why Print Will Never Die- (from a photography perspective)

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/magazines/why_print_mags_wont_die_80956.asp#more

Photo manipulation

Here's a terrific resource to expand on yesterday's lecture discussion of manipulation of images. Check it out.
But a student raised a great discussion topic via IM. Manipulation is supposedly verboten in news. What about strat comm? Swimsuit models don't really look like they appear to in ads. They've been retouched to look better. Is this OK? Do you think the average consumer understands this? Should that matter? What are the social implications of making people look better than they actually do? What are the gender implications.

Photo editing and ethics

I'm going cross-blog here for an interesting note on ethics in photo editing. Check out this post from my advanced class. What do you think of the choices made here? Which photo is the one you would run if you were in charge?