Friday, November 18, 2011

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

During the Lebanese war this photographer took pictures of the missles launched by the planes in Israel and made it look more intense by photo shopping it adding darker smoke and increasing the number of flares dropped by the planes. They found out about his photo manipulation and fired him as photo editor and stopped associating with him. There has been many cases like this in which important news is being messed with. I think this type of photo editing is unethical because the people are being lied to about what is really happening and we can't help to go by what the media says. I could start necessary conflict that can lead to bigger issues.

I think this picture is the most unethical one because they made it seem as if the soldier is doing a bad job of protecting the people, as if he's telling the man with the child that he has to sit down. What was really happening was he was actually waving and when the man was getting up the soldier was actually looking the other way. Maybe it affects the way people assume that soldiers aren't all good.

I think this picture is the least unethical for it doesn't really affect anyone and it may help make Oprah look better to the public. This kind of publicity isn't as negative and not a lot of people would react to it and definitely not in a negative way.
 

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