Manipulation and Ethics

A.   Some of the main points I found regarding manipulating images were that most pictures in the media are photoshopped and edited, photoshopping is found unethical, and that photoshopping makes it easier to change an image.

B.   The philosophy of manipulating images in the New York Times and the Washington Post is that a simple photoshop is considered unethical ,so altering and distorting an image too where the public can't see the true action it is considered very unethical. So the ethical thing to do is to just give the public the true, real image.

C.   Acceptable things you may do to an image without crossing the line of unethical manipulation is a simple color correction, saturation, or an adjusting of the brighteness.

D.


I believe this photograph is the most unethical because of how the "TIME" altered the image on the left. This image is distorted to make the man look darker than he really is, by doing so the public will have the impression that this man is scarier than he really is and more dangerous. This can also be considered an unethical stereotype toward black people that they are more dangerous than whites.


E.


I believe this image is the least unethical because of what the magazine "National Geographic" did not do. They did not do any major alterations to the image, National Geographic's only alteration was  photoshopping the mountains in the image to where the full scene could be seen on the page. This magazine establishment also has the philosophy of not using technology to manipulate images.