Sports Photography Integrity?

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I was listening to the radio and it was mentioned that pictures from the Spurs v Sunderland game had been altered on some of the back pages of the newspapers to make it appear that Adebayor and manager Sherwood were saluting each other , as Adebayor does a military type salute if you score. However some papers, the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror either blocked another member of staff with some text, as with the Mirror, or in the case of the Daily Mail, removed the extra person completely and also looks to have altered the background. I thought being a journalistic photography images wouldn't be altered like this. :eek: Are Sport photographs exempt from that? :thinking:

I don't see newspapers that much apart from the Sunday papers so don't know how common such things are.

What do you think? Happens often/rarely? Good or Bad? No big thing/crossed a line?
 
redhed17 said:
I I thought being a journalistic photography images wouldn't be altered like this. :eek: Are Sport photographs exempt from that? :thinking:
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first off.. No sports photogrpaher will have done that.. Its considered profesional suicide to alter a pictur in such a way (or any way that changes the scene) and send to a newspaper... if this has been done then its the picture editor at the paper not the photographer... If it was my picture they butchered i would not be happy.. but then the money paid would mellow me :)
 
Maybe times have changed Tony - I certainly hope so - but the day I decided to walk away from shooting sport was due to learning how alterations could be made.

Leeds v Tottenham in the late 90's, and we were still shooting film, but photoshop was starting to be used. I was sat next to a photographer from another agency and got a shot of a goal with the ball virtually on the foot. I heard his shutter go off a split second later.

After the game, the our technicians were working next to each other and they both had the 'goal' shots on their screens, but the ball was in a virtually identical spot. When i questioned him about if he showed me how easy it was to put a non-existant ball into the shot.

It's nice to think that these things don't happen, but in reality there will always be rogue shooters
 
It still happens Tony, i posted a link to a Rugby League photo on twitter during last years World cup where massive and ever so obvious cloning had taken place of Rangi Chase scoring a try, the pic was taken and altered by the photographer who owns an RL Photo agency (you have worked for him Tony)

Ive sat and watched him do it to dozens of photos mate which have then been sent for publication
 
I have also heard of this, from what I believe its has been going on for many years, should it happen the answer for me is always no.
 
Yeah. I saw that pic. Les Ferdinand had been chopped out of the image.

I was surprised they were allowed to do that.

If I were Les Ferdinand I'd be pretty peeved.
 
It was Chris Ramsey!!

And the Mail has now said it was a 'mistake' and not policy to edit 'news' images in such a way. Quite right too.
 
BBR said:
What was the mistake? Doing it or getting caught?
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Probably the latter by what some people have said has been going on for years. :rolleyes:

I would have thought, and hoped, that sports pics were treated the same way as news pics, and left alone. And maybe the vast majority are. Difficult to know how widespread retouching of sports pics is, I suppose a lot will depend how long there is between capture and publish, and how desperate they are for 'the' pic. :thinking:
 
KIPAX said:
first off.. No sports photogrpaher will have done that.. Its considered profesional suicide to alter a pictur in such a way
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Same for photo journalists.... doesn't stop the odd idiot having a go every once in a while though.
 
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