Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A. The main posts that people make regarding manipulation is ethics vs. aesthetics and art vs. journalism. Also, the cameras back then did not accurately show what nature looked like and the color and simplicity. The photo shop started back when the camera was first invented then people started to realize that photo shop was actually at thing that everyone could do.

B. The philosophies of New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today show that they have to show all of their profs as well as turn in their final portfolio to make sure the photographs are able to be used. I also think that photoshop was a big deal according to this because they showed how to properly edit a picture efficiently.

C. Some things you can do to not cross the line of manipulation is slightly changing the brightness to make the picture brighter, or taking out things such as red eye and changing a slight tone of filter of the overall picture. As well as cropping the picture to make it fit what you want into the picture without unnecessary things. Or also changing the background to make the colors not clash or to make the background not look so cluttered.

D.   I think this picture is unethical because all of the people in the picture look like they are floating around throughout the picture. The three people closest to the left all have their feet in the same place. The other person on the far right looks like she was photo shopped in and it looks very bad. The background was obviously changed because if it wasn't they would not be floating in the air.




E. I think that the photo shop in the picture above is not as bad as the previous one because the second picture is just closer up and cropped vs. the first picture because it looks better closer up to show the real subject and what the main focus is on. Also, this is good because it shows that the first picture has so much background that the picture isn't focused on the main point. Again, this photoshop is very slight and does not look unnatural.