Digital Photographer Magazine

A month ago I'd posted this big rambly post on the digital photographer magazine forums in a thread about photo retouching. The editor got in touch a few days later and asked me for a headshot so that they could quote some of my words alongside my picture in one of their features.Oooh, exciting!

Anyway, I patiently waited for June 16th to roll around and when it did I popped into the local newsagents and grabbed myself a copy.

Have to say, they definitely picked the lamest line out of the entire post to use. 

I'd ranted about how the Oil of Olay advert with twiggy or lulu (whichever one it was) that was photoshopped to a ridiculous level was tantamount to false advertising, and I spoken about how photo manipulation has been around as long as photography has because a black and white image is manipulation itself. Then I'd made a point about how people need to learn to where to draw the line.

Some strongly argued points, well supported and reasoned arguments, and some good examples listed. Turns out that the only sentence they selected from the entire post was, "Removing spots, blemishes, scars and stray hairs is what the technology was invented for, and that's a good thing in my book."

Lame...... but it's always nice to see yourself in print!

Craig