Give me a break, this is a fine image not really a digital manipulation... people think that photography is reality (it has never being). The cleanup in the image below could have been made in a darkroom 60 years ago (will take more work but not a technical challenge). I personally do not like "photographers" that need to do this extreme cropping to get an interesting image (the original image is at best a bad snapshot).

Disqualified World Press Photo before and after: Photographer defends 'retouching' (update Thursday.
www.amateurphotographer.co.uk
A photographer has today defended his digital manipulation of an image that led to his disqualification from the World Press Photo competition.Picture credit: Stepan Rudik




