News agencies wouldn’t allow an inconvenient dog to be erased.
Agencies, he said, “don’t manipulate pictures. The things that agencies can do - we can crop a picture, we can tone the picture, to make sure that the exposure is right, that the colour is right”.
“What photo agencies will not do is rearrange or move the content of a photograph,” he said.
“You must remember that newspaper picture desks, news agency picture desks are looking at tens of thousands of pictures a day and there is always a great pressure to get a picture moving out to websites, to the next step in the process. So, there is always that pressure to move things quickly.”
