Mission Accomplished - My Professional Reputation Is Restored

I´m very thankful for my friend who made me conscious about the debate about one of my documentary photos in a closed forum which he is a member of. His action made it possible for me to take immediate action, write a text and upload the original unedited photo in my blog. 

My professional reputation is very important for me because I work as a reporter and photojournalist every now and then. It´s very important for me that my readers can trust that I don't manipulate my photos or articles to make them more interesting. But high regions are never without storms and therefor it´s good to always be prepared for the coming storms. A good way to be prepared is to always play with open cards. And remeber that everything that we do in the dark will always come to light.

The picture that I wrote about in my blog yesterday is back were it belong. The mission is accomplished and most important my professional reputation is restored. I stood against the storm this time and I hope that I will stand firm against the coming storms of life by the Grace of God. Please let me say one last thing - Don´t believe in rumors! Please ask me first if you are suspicious about any of my photos or articles.

Text and Photo: © Mikael Good, All Rights Reserved

I don't manipulate my photos it's just the sensor that is broken

There are rumors on the net that the picture above that I sent to the Leica Oskar Barnack Award is manipulated. The rumors isn´t true. Please check with me first before you start to spread a rumour, cause there's always a explanation. As you can see in the lower right corner of the original photo below it´s the protective glass in my Leica M8 that is broken. And I had to use the clone stamp in Photoshop to get rid of the signs of the broken glass in the picture. I have to admit that i´m a really bad photoshopper and manipulation is definitely not my cup of tea. I only use the clone stamp every now and then to get rid of dust and scratches in digital och analogue photos and to get rid of the signs of the broken protective glass in my M8.

 

It would be much easier for me to to fix the camera but that will cost me nearly 6000 kronor and that´s money that I can´t afford to spend on a camera repair right now. It seems that I have to live with the broken protective glass... I could also solve the problem with the broken protective glass by cropping the images from my Leica M8 to 4/3-format. The picture below shows a 4/3-crop of the photo. If you still happen to be suspicious of some of my photos that I've taken with my Leica M8, then you are more than welcome to email me so that I can take a screenshot of the original RAW-file and send it to you.



Text and photo: © Mikael Good, All Rights Reserved.

Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2013

Nu är det bara två månader kvar tills det är deadline för årets Leica Oskar Barnack Award. I år har jag haft fyra olika bidrag att välja mellan. Men man får tyvärr inte skicka in mer än ett bidrag och även om valet var svårt denna gången så har jag nu träffat mitt val.

Bilden som illustrerar detta inlägget tillhör ett av bidragen som jag valde att rata. Anledningen till att det bidraget ratades var att det inte gick att sy ihop det till en helhet.

Text och foto: © Mikael Good. All Rights Reserved.