The short article on the staging of photos was interesting. I would hope that just about anyone who reads it would agree without question that staging news photos is wrong. At my wedding, the videographer asked us to re-do the cake cutting because he missed it, due to the zealous photographer, determined to catch the candid shot himself, being in the way. He missed the moment, and it was lost.
The NFL draft party story is hilarious in that no photographer worth his or her salt would ever attempt such a thing. If the moment is lost, you missed it. Try for another moment. Anything else is unethical and a deception of the reader.
Feature photos, of course, are different, even though the mandate is often to avoid making them look staged. I do find that it's tough to do what the author said, to try to blend in while shooting. Your presence is never forgotten, and the subject is always aware of it. The key is to catch them when they happen to be least aware.
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