- 1 February 2016
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ลำดับตอนที่ #17 : Nikon takes down plane photo after row
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35457135
Nikon takes down plane photo after row
Look Up, by Singaporean
photographer Chay Yu Wei, appeared to capture a plane just as it flew over a
building.
But Nikon and Mr Chay had to
apologise after thousands pointed out the plane had very clearly been edited
in.
It has also emerged that an identical image was posted on Instagram by another photographer one year ago.
Singaporean photographer Lee Yik
Keat, who posted that image, called it "the classic lookup". He told
the BBC he could not tell if it was the same photo, but said he had always
freely admitted his was a composite.
How the fake
plane row unfolded
11 January - Nikon
Singapore announces its monthly amateur photography competition on Facebook
asking for people to "enchant us with your monochrome photography",
with a trolley bag for the winner.
The terms of the competition
say the photos must be original works, though doesn't specifically bar editing.
Mr Chay, who
Instagrams as @yuuuuuwei, uploaded his entry.
The following week - One user asks
Mr Chay on his Instagram how long he waited for the plane to pass overhead. He
replies "Not too long, I was lucky" with two smiling emoji.
28 January - Mr Chay is
announced as the competition winner. Nikon says he chanced upon some ladders while on a photo walk of
Singapore's Chinatown and thought it was make an interesting shot. "Little
did he expect to catch an airplane in mid-air."
Almost immediately, people
began questioning the photo.
Running it through Photoshop
and playing just slightly with the colour levels showed very clearly a white
box around the plane, indicating it had been cut and pasted onto the shot. The
plane itself also appeared pixellated.
Much of the anger fell on Mr
Chay, with photographers turning on his Instagram to accuse him of deliberate fakery.
"There's nothing wrong
with the photo, I know tons of IGers who puts a plane on it or photoshop many stars etc, the
problem is you shouldn't have lied about waiting for it, there are many people
out there who isn't stupid," said one user.
Another user observed: "He
took a similar photo last year as well. Must have been really lucky and skilful
to have captured such low-flying planes twice."
But there was also anger at
Nikon for what was seen as poor judgement, and bad handling of the row.
"The problem lies with the
judges. May be photo-enthusiasts
who are overly zealous
in the quest for an 'impossible' or 'wow' factor in the entries. Please keep it
real and get real practicing photographers to be the judges. It may help
Nikon's reputation in many ways," MY Lye posted on the Facebook page.
30 January
Nikon posts an apology, saying
"we should not compromise
standards even for a casual photo contest".
"We have made an honest mistake and the rousing response from the
community today is a reminder to us that the true spirit of photography is very
much alive."
But many replies are not happy.
"It is appalling that a maker of
serious photography equipment takes photography integrity so lightly," says Darren Lim.
"If you truly made an "honest mistake", then rectify it. Don't try to justify by labelling it
as a casual contest."
Also that
night, Mr Yu posts an apology on Instagram.
He says adding the plane had been a "playful
edit" and was "not meant to bluff anyone". He says he had been joking
about being lucky to catch the shot.
But he says he "crossed the
line by submitting the photo for a competition", and apologised to Nikon
and the photography community.
31 January
In response to more criticism of the competition and
its initial PR reaction, Nikon issues a second apology, saying it will "do
the right thing by our community and by the standards that are expected of
Nikon, and as such, we will shortly be removing Look Up from our pages".
Thanking users for their "candour" and
continue support, it apologises that this means their comments will also
disappear.
1 February
Local media report that a very similar photo to Look
Up was posted on Instagramalmost
exactly a year ago by Lee Yik Keat.
Mr Lee tells the BBC he can't tell whether the
picture was a copy or was inspired by his image, but that this method of making
composite images "did not originate from me".
"I declared to my audience that it was two
images into one edit and the tag was #putaplaneonit."
"I think this kind of
editing is fine as long as it is declared, sometimes creative edits can spark
other people's imagination so it can be useful. I think if he declared it was a
composite and he wins it it is fine, however (if i am not wrong?) he did not
inform Nikon upfront."
Memes roll in
Despite the anger, it's fair to
say some photographers have had fun with the row as an opportunity to show of
their photo editing skills.
VOCABULARY
amateur (adj.)
taking part
in an activity for pleasure, not as a job:
someone who does not have much skill in what they do:
erupted (v.)
to suddenly express your feelings in a noisy way:
to explode
emerged (v.)
to appear by coming out of something or out from behind
something
to come to the end of a difficult period or experience:
to become known,
especially as a result of examiningsomething or asking questions about it:
composite. (n.)
something that is made of various different parts:
a material made up of
more than one substance that is used
for building things:
bar (v.)
to prevent something or someone
from doing something or going somewhere, or to not allow something:
ladders (n.)
a piece of equipment used for climbing up and down,
that consists of two vertical bars or pieces of rope joined to each other by a set of horizontal steps:
pixellated. (adj.)
A pixelated image is made up of pixels.
deliberate (adj.)
(often of something bad)
intentional or planned
deliberate movement, action,
or thought is done carefullywithout hurrying
(v) to think or talk seriously and carefully about something:
handling (n.)
the way that someone deals with a situation or person:
enthusiasts (n.)
a person who is very interested in and involved with a particular subject or activity:
overly (adv.)
too; very:
zealous (adj.)
enthusiastic and eager:
compromise (n.)
an
agreement in an argument in which the people involvedreduce their demands or change their opinion in order to agree:
(v.)
to
accept that you will reduce your demands or changeyour opinion in order to reach an agreement with someone:
to
allow your principles to be less strong or your standards or morals to be lower:
rousing (adj.)
making people feel excited and proud or ready to take action:
appall (v.)
to cause someone to be extremely upset or shocked:
integrity (n.)
the quality of being honest and having strongmoral principles that you refuse to change:
rectify (v.)
to correct something or make
something right:
justify (v.)
to give or to be a good reason for:
bluff (v.)
to deceive someone by
making them think either that
you are going to do something when you really have no intention of doing it,
or that you have knowledge that you do
not really have, or that you are someone else:
candour (n.)
the quality of being honest and telling the truth, especiallyabout a difficult or embarrassing subject:
declared (adj.)
A declared fact is one that someone
has publicly said or admitted:
Upfront (adj.)
speaking or behaving in a way that makes intentions and beliefs clear:
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