Friday, September 30, 2016

Photo manipulations and ethics

Photo Manipulations and Ethics
A. What are some of the main points you read about in the website above regarding manipulating images?
-Majority of the pictures in the popular media outlets 
are photoshopped.(magazines,tv,Social media, ect.)

-Photoshop makes it easier to change a photo
-Changing a photos and stories is unethical and should be left to the public.
B. What is the philosophy of newspapers like the Washington Post and the New York times regarding image manipulation?
Anything that is changed from the original image is considered unethical.
C. What do you think are acceptable things you could do to an image and not cross the line unto an unethical manipulation?
color correcting, fixing the brightness, saturation, cropping,ect..  

D. Post the manipulation (this means get that image and post it on your blog) that you think was the most unethical, and explain why you think it was unethical. If you do not know what the word ethic or unethical means, look them up on the internet. It is very important you know what those two words mean. Please write at least 2-3 sentences explaining why you think it is so bad.
I think this manipulation was unethical because they edited his skin to be darker so he would look more frightening. Basically saying that being a darker skin color makes you more dangerous, and trying to portray darker the skin the more dangerous of a human . There for i do not think this is ethically correct.
E. Post the manipulation that you consider the least unethical, and explain why you think it is not as bad as others. Please write at least 2-3 sentences explaining why you think this one is not so bad.

I think this is the least un ethical because it is not singling out a human being. Instead 
it is just photo shopping the mountains in the back to seem more appeasable to the eye,and make the picture more idealist to benefit its topic of interest. This is why i think this is the most ethically acceptibal photo presented. 



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