Friday, September 20, 2013

Photo manipulation and ethics

http://www.globaljournalist.org/stories/2009/07/01/ethics-in-the-age-of-digital-manipulation/

The website shows four different photoshopped photographs, and gives examples of good use of photoshop, and bad use of photoshop. The man on the Prudhoe Bay oil field, shows a good example, because the original photograph messed up, and gave the man four hands accidentally. The photoshopped photograph fixed the photograph and made it look like it was normal. A bad example is how an official photo for Jerusalem had been photoshopped to edit the females out, so it only there is only males.
I think this photograph is the most unethical because it appears to have the soldier yelling at the man with the child, but it was photoshopped, and the truth is that the soldier allowed the man to come forth to see what was wrong. I think.
This photograph isn't as unethical as the others because it isn't really doing any harm to anybody, and also, it helps the magazine because the book is so thin, so they edited the pyramids for the benefit of the magazine, without doing harm to others.

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