Doctored photo costs photog a newsroom job
Sunday, July 30th, 2006The Charlotte Observer sacked a staff photographer for altering a spot news image a few days back when all he’d tried to do was return the colour back to the sky. Although this wasn’t his first run-in with altering photos, the ethics of which was discussed by Pedro Meyer in his 2003 article In defense of photographer Patrick Schneider and the fictions of a "Code of Ethics"
"Schneider said he did not intend to mislead readers, only to restore the actual color of the sky. He said the color was lost when he underexposed the photo to offset the glare of the sun."
