07-12-2011, 03:26 PM
DP wrote:
NatGeo doesn't want wacked out stuff. Maybe a little Curves and Vibrance, Shadow/Highlight adjustments.
Maybe not now, but...
"On a cover story of Egypt, pyramids were squeezed together to fit the cover's vertical format. A picture story on Poland contained a cover photograph that combined an expression on a man's face in one frame with a complete view of his hat in another picture. Both cover images were altered without a hint of possible detection and without a note to readers that such manipulation was performed."
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/photo..._pyramids/
http://www.coverscans.com/covers/205156
"Rich Clarkson, director of photography at National Geographic when the pyramid and Poland covers; were faked, said he had no ethical problem with combining two photographs into a single cover picture, although "some publications could start abusing.""