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Patrick Schneider, a photographer for the Charlotte Observer, was fired from the paper for manipulating the colour of a sunset sky in an image featured in the newspaper on Thursday.

In a statement the paper said:

The photo, taken by Observer photographer Patrick Schneider, appeared on the front of the Local & State section. It depicted a Charlotte firefighter on a ladder, silhouetted by the light of the early morning sun.

In the original photo, the sky in the photo was brownish-gray. Enhanced with photo-editing software, the sky became a deep red and the sun took on a more distinct halo.

The photographer had been suspended previously for similar manipulations and three awards he had won from the North Carolina Press Photographers Association were taken back. Many people defended the photographer after his original suspension in 2003, there is an article here with a comparison of the three manipulated images he submitted to the NCPPA awards and the originals.

Jonathan Greenwald of Shrued (and you have to admire his pluck) proposed to his girlfriend Lesley on his photoblog! Thankfully she was kind enough to accept

I've been lucky enough to meet them both and it couldn't happen to a nicer couple, congratulations and all the best guys!

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So the new Nikon being teased on Nikon sites around the world is, according to popular reports, the new D80. The important factor will be price, with 10.2mp it will be strong competition for the Canon 30d (approx US$1250) and Nikon will be looking to keep the price low to compete with the Sony A100 ($900). At the same time Nikon can't undercut their own D200 model (approx US$1700) by too much. One of the possible restrictions on the D80 could be that it only uses SD memory cards, like the D50.

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