Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A. This article explains what is appropriate and inappropriate for photoshop. Many newspapers and magazines feel pressured to have certain images, so they photoshop them into what looks best to them. There is a line that's crossed a lot of the time though with photo manipulation into too much. Altering lighting and colors is alright, but not someone's body or setting around them. It doesn't take that much talent to learn photoshop, but it does take talent to be a good photographer, so that's another problem with it.

B. The Washington Post, New York Times, and other magazines have similar philosophies in that some colors can be changed, but they all have very strict guidelines for what their photographers can photoshop.

C. I think acceptable things are things like making a picture lighter, making someone a bit less red, or changing some colors to make it more cohesive. Just small things that help bring out the good qualities of a picture.  Unacceptable things would be like someone's body or completely changing the setting of a picture.

D. Most unethical:


This magazine photoshopped Oprah's head onto the body of a model. This is blatantly disrespectful, and they should've had a picture with her real body. The editors later explained that they 'gave credit' to the original magazine, but it still isn't right. 

E. Least Unethical:


I think this picture is the least unethical, or most ethical, because the photographer just wanted to feature all of the pyramids. This was still wrong and he shouldn't have done it, but compared to the other photoshopped pictures of people's bodies, I don't think that this one is as bad. National Geographic also later released a statement apologizing for it and said they would never do it again, so they owned up for it. 


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