Dont Believe all you see and read about International media

[Amal]

Re: Dont Believe all you see and read about International media

@Hibba313

… photographers make editorial decisions all the time: where to point the camera, of course, but also how to frame the shot, whether to crop and if so what, how long a shutter speed to use; and all of these can affect the facts a picture presents, without falsifying the image.

I don’t think that photographers make editorial decisions. They do exactly what they are told to do. Editorial policies are some time not made even by the Editor or his team. In some cases they get a line by the owner of the business and they have to toe it.

Photographers work on assignment and they generally know what kind of a feature their photographs will be part of. Cropping is done by photo editors. Though today’s cameras allow photo editing, but that’s not photographers’ job. The authority of editing and selection of pitures rests with the editorial staff.