Editorial: Flipping, Public appeal, BBC Wild Isles, AI

Staff · Issue 132, May/Jun 2023 · pp. 4

Editorial Flipping I bet that most underwater photographers who feel the need, or enjoy, post processing their images rarely think of ‘flipping them’ - that is flipping them horizontally (or sometimes vertically) to see if it would look any better. The excellent and graphically simple cover image on this issue is another eye catching shot but I thought it would look more appealing if it was flipped. The original is in Brook Pyke’s lovely selection of Portraits on page 47. As with anything to do with images, it is always entirely personal and, as the late, great Terence Donovan is attributed “It’s all about having an opinion”. I thought that the flipped image was much more logical on the eye which naturally scans from left to right so the Title is first followed by the Sea lion. Left ‘unflipped’ the Title and the subject would have clashed visually. In this particular case something has b…