Photo Manipulation And Ethics

A.  In the article Ethics In The Age Of Digital Manipulation  by Mark Hancock, the article talks about journalists manipulating their photos. Many of the journalists lost there jobs for the digital manipulation. Some examples include the photographers editing objects or effects in to make the photo more interesting to the viewers.

B.  I think this kind of photo editing is unacceptable and unethical because of the misleading story the slight change can project. If the journalist is capturing an important event news worthy, they should accurately portray the event.

From the two sites we were given to search manipulations, I found this photo by Brian Walski to be the most unethical. The photographer was capturing an important event and makes drastic changes. I feel the editing done looks very realistic and the differences made could change a viewers outlook on the image. Another unethical manipulation I found, was a newspaper that edited  George Bush and Saddam Hussein to appear debating with the title also suggesting that the two had a debate, but in fact they never did.

I chose this manipulated photo by John Flio for the least unethical because of how unnoticeable and unimportant the slight change is. The slight change in the image is the removal of the pole behind Mary Anne Vecchio. The event the photographer is capturing is important, and his manipulation to the photograph does not change the event the original picture shows or its importance. Though the changes he made are small and do not distract from the original subject, I still think the journalist should not have done what he did.