Thursday, January 25, 2018

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A. With manipulating images editors usually use adobe photoshop to doctor photographs(Which is editing the appearance of the main person or subject in the photograph to be more appealing to the general mass) and cropping and scaling images to create a depth perception(Which can lead consumers to believe in information or an event that is false or never took place).
B. Those newspapers believe that giving the consumer false information and tricking them into believing it is ethically wrong, so photojournalists working for the Washington Post and the New York Times have to follow strict guidelines on photo editing and are required to turn in proof for a photograph.
C. I think acceptable things in photo editing is cropping to allow more focus to be enabled on the subject and color levels to make the picture brighter and more appealing.

D. I think this photograph of OJ was the worst in my opinion. I think its the worst because it was edited to portray OJ as some sort of villain, completely dehumanizing him. It also changed the opinions of the general masses, making them forget this man is a person with thoughts and feelings.

E. I think this photograph is edited more ethically than the rest of the examples provided. I think this because the editors didn't alter someones appearance to make it more attractive to consumers or use a photograph without consent, but they made two pyramids look closer together. They did this not even to appeal to consumers but to fit on the National Geographic magazine template. 


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