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Re: New Soundscapes & realism

Subject: Re: New Soundscapes & realism
From: "Marc Myers" primatemarc
Date: Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:34 am ((PST))
Fifteen years ago when digital photo processing was just becoming known, I =
participated in a book on the world's primates. We worked out a scheme with=
 four categories:
Natural habitat - same as wild,
No caption - unknown circumstances or captive,
Digital composite - primate in the photograph was unchanged but the surroun=
dings were changed (usually to get rid of zoo bars), and
Digital Illustration - primate in the photo was changed, typically by photo=
shoping a closely related species, in order to have the best possible illus=
tration as some animals had been described but never photographed.

But I like the three simpler categories of NANPA better, how about:
Wild - much like the photographers, not modified in any way for the duratio=
n of the clip
Digitally Processed - would include any post processing including equalizat=
ion, noise reduction, compression, etc.
Edited - Material has been added (ex: bird calls over ambient sound) or del=
eted (ex: car horns) for the duration of the recording.




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