Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A. Some of the main points I read about in the article, regarding photo manipulation are that now a days just about anyone can open photoshop and completely destroy original photos into something else, photoshopped images are no longer portraying the truth and that are also consequences for manipulating an image unethically.


B. The Washington Post and New York Times have very strict guidelines when it comes to photo manipulation, such rules include not changing the original colors in an image.


C. I think some acceptable things to change in an image is to change lighting in a photo (in case it comes out to dark;and vice versa). Making rather small and slight changes that have no major affect on the overall image is all right.

D.

I believe this photo is the most unethical because this photo completely changes who the subject is and that is in a way changing history for not showing the truth. The original photo had been the photo of John Calhoun but was later manipulated to have Abraham Lincoln's head which in doing so is unethical.

E.

This photo I believe, is the least unethical because the changes in the photo are very slight (photo on right being the original) and there was also changing in lighting but not color.