Re: [photo-3d] Re: CGI

[Ron Beck <rbeck@xxxxxxxx>]

Wasn't there a picture of O J Simpson on one of the magazines (Time???)
that was "enhanced" to provide OJ with a sinister look?

Ron

JNorman805@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Bob Maxey writes:
> 
> <<National Geographic once offered it's readers a cover that was
> pieced together from digital images; and long before any of us had the
> means or knowledge to create digital images of any merit.>>
> 
> As I recall, it was not exactly "pieced together," but modified to create a vertical format to fit the cover from a horizontal photograph, about 15 years ago.  If memory serves, it involved the repositioning of Egyptian pyramids, and it was done using an incredibly expensive "sytex" machine.  It caused a firestorm of controversy among those of us (me included) who believed it was a giant jump down the slippery slope of faked photojournalism.  Can you imagine anyone getting so upset about so innocent a modification now? Is seeing still believing?  Does anyone even care???
> 
> Jim Norman