Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Photo Manipulation and Ethics



Lebanese photographer Adnan Hajj submitted at least two digitally-manipulated images to Reuters during the 2006 Lebanon War. In one instance, Hajj digitally manipulated the image to show more and darker smoke rising from the buildings in suburban Beirut after an Israeli airstrike. During the same conflict, Issam Kobeisi made two images for Reuters and Hussein Malla submitted one to AP of a woman wailing in front of a bombed house. The strange thing about all three photographs was that it was the same woman, but at three different locations on three different dates, according to times stamps on the images.
i think this kind of photo editing is acceptable in certain situations. it is acceptable when trying to focus on one definite thing or trying to make more effective. in not so acceptable situations is trying to create a picture that isn't real and didn't really happen at all.

This photo is unethical in my opinion, because they fake diversity by placing a black person in the picture who wasn't there before. 

This photo could be both unethical and ethical. But i chose this for ethic because maybe they changed her teeth because she requested this in embarrassment.

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