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LETTER OF THE WEEK
You don’t have to be a royalist to feel sorry for Princess Catherine after the frenetic reaction to her making mistakes whilst editing her family image. Many of us amateur photographers have badly edited our images and ours are not scrutinised by the top picture agencies in the world. The lesson for all of us is to be careful how we edit our images because we don’t always know who will get to see them.
It would be nice for AP to arrange a sympathetic interview with her about her interest in photography. John Bolt
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Bandwagon
I am surprised that Deputy Editor Geoff Harris joined the ‘bandwagon’ regarding the recent royal photo.
The picture was a genuine shot, whether you call it amateur or not, to please the public on Mothering Sunday, which I am sure it has – and well deserved are the compliments it has received. To say it has been ‘Photoshopped’ (or more likely, and sensibly using Canon’s Digital Photo Professional 4) may be true, but the nit-picking is irrelevant.
People such as yourself have the ability to make comments about the way a photo has been taken (just a right-click for anyone with the genuine photo) and others making comments on such details as a sleeve or pullover – it doesn’t matter and nobody really cares!
Those professionals in the world of photography who criticise are only
© NICK BRANDT showing off their knowledge but not mentioning the real professional retouching experts who ‘go to work’ on innumerable photos to make the person in their magazine look good. Hours of work, in some cases.
Bryan Wenham Baker
Geoff Harris replies: Obviously people do care, as web traffic statistics confirm. Consequently it was the main story on the BBC, The Daily Mail, and The Sun on Monday, and a massive topic on social media. Rather than bandwagon jumping, it’s AP’s duty to report on this big photography-related story, and to analyse what the issues were with the picture, of which there were several. The UK’s big press agencies wouldn’t have pulled it, otherwise – and then there would
