Why does a dog lick himself?

He does it, of course, because he can...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060807/ts_nm/mideast_reuters_dc
Ken

Ken Nadvornick

Re: Why does a dog lick himself?

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:10:45 +0100, "Mick Harris"
from a 'canon shooter' ( FTB ).
if the original question was why does a dog lick his/her human's face,
the answer is
"because he's just licked his arse & wants to get the taste out of his
mouth" <grin>
Ian C


Ian Cowan

Re: Why does a dog lick himself?

Hi Dave, and thanks for the welcome.
Yeah I know what you mean, those Pacific skies etc can be a bit over done
sometimes, normally over-saturated.
I tend to tweak most of my pics using Levels, Brightness/Contrast, and
Unsharp Mask, but I try to keep them as natural looking as possible.
Since going digital I have not had that many pics that haven't benefited
from some kind of tweak, especially Levels (however small) as I just don't
seem to get the richness & vibrancy straight from the camera (Canon EOS ;-)
that I used to get using Fuji Velvia, but that's probably down to me being
over critical!
Cheers
Mick


Mick Harris

Re: Why does a dog lick himself?

Hi Mick,
welcome - not that I'm really any kind of official 'welcomer'... :-)
Very true, to an extent. Putting pacific blue skies into shots of some
parts of Asia in summer gets a bit far-fetched IMHO. Also, removing the
tree trunk growing out of granny's cranium is all too easy these days. Take
the best shot in the first instance if you ask me! :-)
Again, I agree to an extent.
Full agreement here, maybe being a little lenient on some minor colour
balancing, a touch of unsharp masking and any other necessary pre-press
work... lots of gray areas here...
Indeed - he must have been a Canon shooter... :-P
Cheers,
Dave E (Sydney)

Re: Why does a dog lick himself?

Hi all, it's my first post so go easy on me ;-)
Photographers have been manipulating photos in the darkroom (and using
filters ;-) for years now, and Photoshop is just a digital version of the
darkroom, albeit allot more advanced, and in the right hands, is capable of
producing some outstanding images/pictures.
As long as the end result is what we want, does it really matter how we get
there? The exception being photo journalism, which should only ever use
photographs that are un-manipulated.
IMO a photograph is the original image, un-manipulated, and straight from
the camera, whereas a manipulated photograph should be called a picture or
image.
As for the picture in question by the freelance photographer Adnan Hajj,
well, he hasn't done himself any favours by submitting work like that! It
has got to be one of the worst attempts at cloning I have ever seen, and
how/why Reuters let it be published in the first place is beyond me.
Anyway that's my two penneth, all the best.
Mick


Mick Harris

Re: Why does a dog lick himself?

And shoot the photo editor who accepted the image in the first place.


No_name

Re: Why does a dog lick himself?

It's "just not done" in photojournalism. Manipulation in photographic
art is one thing, but it's not acceptable in news photography. The
picture tells a story, and that story has to be the truth.
And in this case it's a really ham-fisted effort. Look at the
manipulated image on the left. You can see overlapping circles where the
clone stamp was used. They're even visible in the thumbnail that
accompanies the article.
What I don't understand is how something so obviously manipulated ever
got past the photo editor in the first place.


No_name

Re: Why does a dog lick himself?

There's this one
http://www.popphoto.com/photographynewswire/2772/reuters-pulls-doctored-photo.html
that claims he was just touching up dust. -
[Hajj, who has freelanced for Reuters since 1993 and has been suspended
pending an internal inquiry, "denied deliberately attempting to
manipulate the image, saying he was trying to remove dust marks and
that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working
under," according to the Reuters statement.]
Twain was wrong, or didn't live long enough -
lies, damn lies, statistics and photographs.


JimKramer

Re: Why does a dog lick himself?

Let's try "photographers have been using filters for years"....
DE

Re: Why does a dog lick himself?

...
Interesting article. Personally, I would love to see this rigour applied to
anything bearing the name 'photography'. Cue the Photoshop fraternity who
immediately drag out the 'photographers have been using filters' argument.
IMHO, manipulation maketh not a good photograph anyway. :-)
Ducks into nearby corner...
Cheers,
Dave E (Sydney)

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