Photo Manipulation and Ethics

Ryan Zukauskas                                                                                                                           Period 3

Photo Manipulation & Ethics

Some of the main points i read about in the article talked about how the media produces and gives information to the public, It's all about how the media feels and the facts that they say there sharing are actually just there own opinions and how they feel about the situation. With issues like this to weigh along with the countless others, including but not nearly limited to, upper management pressure, rating's pressure, employee pressure how is a manager to deal when it comes to performance. With increasing ease editors, photographers, and just about any joe shmo can open up photoshop and wreak havoc on the ethics of hardworking journalist. Where in the distant past that honor was left up to the highly skilled, extremely patient hands of manipulative, trained photo developers. The Washington Post and New York Times usually only manipulate photo's when there is something that the subject in the picture or who owns the place wants the photo to look not more appealing but just better, and that can be making the subjects teeth whiter or adding in someone to the background or crowd of the picture, but it's only really to make it look appealing or just more suitable for when the photo gets released to the public. I think some things that you could manipulate to a photo that aren't unethical are maybe changing the color of something in the background or, but somethings you should never do are drone photography, trespassing, photos of people of without their permission, copy other photographers, and take pictures and print photo's of money. 




Personally i think that this is the most unethical photo out all of the of the ones on that website, because the University of Wisconsin realized that the majority of their students are white and it just so happens that the photo was taken with all white students in the frame so i guess the editor decided that it would be okay to photoshop a picture of an African American's head in the frame, The main reason this happened is because the University of Wisconsin asked the editor to do this so their ethnicity percentages would look better because 69.9% of UN is white and about 2.25% is black or African American, This isn't illegal but it's very wrong and once everybody found out that this was a fake it made UN look really bad and i think they deserved that.




I think this one is the least unethical because all they did is just make her look better and I don't really see how that's a bad thing, The main things that they changed were make her waste look skinnier and her face and cheeks a little bit slimmer, So thats why i think that this photo is the least unethical.