Vintage 80s: Life on the streets

BBC reports:
Time passes and society and places change, yet we often don't notice or overlook the visual clues we see everyday. But, by always carrying a camera and recording those daily encounters, Johnny Stiletto managed to capture a very personal view of life on the streets of London in the 1980s.

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The head of photography on… picture manipulation and trust in news imagery Acceptable uses of Photoshop in the Guardian and Grazia

From the Guardian

"A certain amount of scepticism is a healthy thing in journalists and readers alike. Going through the thousands of photographs that the Guardian picture desk receives each day, we try to keep a critical eye on anything that could be the result of digital retouching software like Photoshop. We are kept on our toes by eagle-eyed readers, always alive to the possibility of artifice.

The most common complaint is the "flipping" of a photograph. This often happens accidentally when using images from picture libraries that have been scanned from negatives or transparencies. But there is also an old tradition in newspaper design for a picture, especially of a person, to face into the page or story that it illustrates, and subeditors have a tendency to want to "flip" to achieve this. But it is against our guidelines.

Our rule about the use of Photoshop and other picture-manipulating software is that cropping and toning – basically anything that might have been done in a darkroom – is OK, but the moving of pixels or "cutting and pasting" is forbidden. We have to trust our photographers and the agencies we deal with not to indulge in anything that might go against our guidelines, but usually it's difficult to spot. I suspect the odd door handle, light switch and extraneous elbow may have been retouched by perfectionist photographers, and most of the time this probably doesn't matter because the pictures are being used in a non-news context – a portrait in the arts pages, for example."

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How about changing the Club competition rules to say that " use of Photoshop and other picture-manipulating software is that cropping and toning – basically anything that might have been done in a darkroom – is OK, but the moving of pixels or "cutting and pasting" is forbidden."

Do you really want to get to grips with Adobe Photoshop?

From -   REIGATE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

Do you really want to get to grips with Adobe Photoshop?

If so, you need to be in Reigate on the 26 September”.

Because on Monday, 26th September Reigate Photographic Society are hosting an evening presentation by Donna Oxley who is an Adobe certified instructor.

The programme will include:

• Brief overview of Photoshop CS5.
• The Camera Raw Processor;
• What is camera raw and why you should use it, making tonal adjustments,white balance, sharpening, cropping, synchronizing settings across images.
• Using Layers;
• The different types of Photoshop Layers, pixel, vector, adjustment, effects,layer masking for compositing.
• Monitor Calibration and Colour Management (if time allows).

Questions and Answers.

The presentation will take place in the Old School Room, Reigate Community Centre, to the rear of the Reigate Methodist Church in the High Street,Reigate, RH2 9AE.

Parking is available in the Morrison Supermarket car-park.

The presentation will begin at 8pm.

There will be a charge at the door of £3 for non-members.

We welcome any members of local camera clubs who would like to join us for an interesting and informative evening.

Les Dyson – Reigate Photographic Society Publicity Secretary

For more information and location map please look at our website –
www.reigatephotosoc.co.uk