{"id":10968,"date":"2018-03-05T08:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=10968"},"modified":"2018-03-03T02:36:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T06:36:08","slug":"who-needs-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/who-needs-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"who needs Photoshop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10970\" style=\"width: 136px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/comet-LIFE-Jan.-5-1948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10970\" class=\"wp-image-10970 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/comet-LIFE-Jan.-5-1948-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LIFE Jan 5, 1948<br \/> showing editorial<br \/> licence taken<br \/> by some newspapers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. George Dunbar has been very busy recently. He sent me this interesting news story recently. Here you can see how \u00a0various newspapers interpreted a sighting of a comet back in late 1947 in Australia. Just click on the icon at left to see LIFE&#8217;s <em>Miscellany<\/em> column.<\/p>\n<p>A retoucher at each paper added different numbers of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comet_tail\">tails<\/a> to the comet! For solid scientific reasons, comets have two tails. The original article was published by LIFE magazine in its January 5, 1948 issue.<\/p>\n<p>A few decades ago (about four) I had the occasion to do some darkroom manipulation too. A friend of mine had no photographs of her parents together. She brought me two prints with similar\u00a0shadows and after a short discussion, I rephotographed the prints and carefully merged the two people in the darkroom to create the \u00a0couple in a single print. Darkroom magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. George Dunbar has been very busy recently. He sent me this interesting news story recently. Here you can see how \u00a0various newspapers interpreted a sighting of a comet back in late 1947 in Australia. Just click on the icon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/who-needs-photoshop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705,12],"tags":[1771,286,425,1773,1772],"class_list":["post-10968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-processes","tag-comet","tag-darkroom","tag-life","tag-retoucher","tag-retouching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10968"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10972,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968\/revisions\/10972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}