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Sound Off for Jan. 21, 2007 BY MIKE JENNER, Californian executive editor e-mail: mjenner@bakersfield.com | Saturday, Jan 20 2007 11:55 PM Last Updated: Saturday, Jan 20 2007 11:55 PM Reader: On the Viewpoint page of Sunday's Californian, there is a photo of Congressman Jim Costa supposedly standing in front of the Cannon House Office Building. Folks, that is a very amateur Photoshop job. Did that really come that way from The Associated Press? -- Jay Eshbach Jenner: In response to your query, Director of Photography Alex Horvath tracked down the woman who shot the photograph, Linda Spiller. She said she used a technique known to photographers as "fill flash," which is used to equalize out-of-balance lighting situations. In this case, Costa was standing in the shade, while the white Cannon House Office Building was in the background, illuminated by bright sunshine. The effect of this technique is that the lighting often...
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