The Photo Can Not Lie.

It has been said often enough, the camera can not lie. What you point your camera at is what you get on the photo. Well this statement might have been true once. Probably for the first 6 weeks in the history of photography. Then someone would have started to work out how to make the photograph a bit better, a bit brighter, remove the dull bits etc. In other words lie. But in the incident reported below the camera wasn't lying, it was the photographer. He should have his cameras placed on the ground just in front of the front wheel of a number 12 bus which should then drive slowly forwards until satisfying crunching noises are heard, preferably the photographer should still be holding on to his/her cameras.

From the Herald Express

POLITICIANS and business leaders today united to condemn a 'fake' swine flu picture of holidaymakers in Paignton wearing face masks published in a national tabloid newspaper.

The photograph, which was strongly criticised by Bay MP Adrian Sanders appeared in The Sun newspaper yesterday and pictured Barnsley visitors Pat Bagshaw and Joan Johnson sitting on the seafront with the masks.

It was confirmed the photoshoot was set up by the South West News Service press agency and supplied to The Sun.

The women pictured were handed the masks by the photographer and asked to wear them while the picture was taken.


Question for the Sun. Don't you care that misleading photos like this can seriously effect the livelihood of thousands of people, some of whom, hopefully, used to read the Sun.
If you live in Torbay, or any holiday town, because if Swine Flu had appeared in Blackpool or Brighton first your town would have been in the picture, don't buy the Sun next week.
And here is a photo of Torquay Harbour that has had nothing done to it and I didn't ask it to look beautiful before I took the picture, it looks beautiful all on it's own.