<story><title>Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app</title><url>http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/04/lens-blur-in-new-google-camera-app.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>We had an interesting discussion about this a few nights ago at a Photojournalism talk.&lt;p&gt;In that field, digital edits are seriously banned, to the point multiple very well known photo journalists have been fired for one little use of the clone tool [1] and other minor edits.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting to think I can throw an f&amp;#x2F;1.8 lens on my DSLR and take a very shallow depth of field photo, which is OK, even though it&amp;#x27;s not very representative of what my eyes saw. If I take the photo at f&amp;#x2F;18 then use an app like the one linked, producing extremely similar results, that&amp;#x27;s banned. Fascinating what&amp;#x27;s allowed and what&amp;#x27;s not.&lt;p&gt;I find even more interesting is the allowance of changing color photos to B&amp;#x2F;W, or that almost anything that &amp;quot;came straight off the camera&amp;quot; no matter how far it strays from what your eyes saw.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.toledoblade.com/frontpage/2007/04/15/A-basic-rule-Newspaper-photos-must-tell-the-truth.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.toledoblade.com&amp;#x2F;frontpage&amp;#x2F;2007&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;A-basic-rule...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jawns</author><text>When you say &amp;quot;digital edits are seriously banned,&amp;quot; I think that&amp;#x27;s overreaching.  I&amp;#x27;m a former newspaper editor, and &amp;quot;digital edits&amp;quot; in the form of adjusting levels, color correction, etc., are performed on every single photo.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s not allowed, as you allude to, is retouching a photo.&lt;p&gt;So does introducing blur after the photo was taken count as retouching, or does it fall into the same category as color correction?  It&amp;#x27;s an interesting question.  On the one hand, it has the potential to obscure elements of the picture, which seems like retouching, but on the other hand, you could just as easily achieve the same effect with a DSLR and there would be no outcry.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app</title><url>http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/04/lens-blur-in-new-google-camera-app.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>We had an interesting discussion about this a few nights ago at a Photojournalism talk.&lt;p&gt;In that field, digital edits are seriously banned, to the point multiple very well known photo journalists have been fired for one little use of the clone tool [1] and other minor edits.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting to think I can throw an f&amp;#x2F;1.8 lens on my DSLR and take a very shallow depth of field photo, which is OK, even though it&amp;#x27;s not very representative of what my eyes saw. If I take the photo at f&amp;#x2F;18 then use an app like the one linked, producing extremely similar results, that&amp;#x27;s banned. Fascinating what&amp;#x27;s allowed and what&amp;#x27;s not.&lt;p&gt;I find even more interesting is the allowance of changing color photos to B&amp;#x2F;W, or that almost anything that &amp;quot;came straight off the camera&amp;quot; no matter how far it strays from what your eyes saw.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.toledoblade.com/frontpage/2007/04/15/A-basic-rule-Newspaper-photos-must-tell-the-truth.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.toledoblade.com&amp;#x2F;frontpage&amp;#x2F;2007&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;A-basic-rule...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VikingCoder</author><text>Radiologists are the same...  You take a Computed Tomography series of images, doing all kinds of back-projection (duh) and volumetric anisotropic edge-preserving smoothing, and then you apply segmentation and false-color, semi-transparent transfer functions and lighting...&lt;p&gt;And then you apply one more post-processing effect to try to highlight something, and they freak out that you&amp;#x27;re no longer showing them the raw data!&lt;p&gt;That does not mean what you think it does.</text></comment>