The Ethics of Digital Photo Manipulation

Image manipulation can often be bad and misleading. Given below are what we feel that the original picture and the manipulated images mean.

1) The soldier:
The first image was of the soldier sticking his hand out more likely giving instructions to the people. And it looks like everything is normal.

The second photo was of the soldier facing the other direction, casually. And a man was standing up in the audience. The soldier was not even looking at the man who was standing.

The third photo which was manipulated shows the soldier halting the man who was standing up. The man looks as if he was running towards the soldier. This created a view that looked as if he was aggressive.

2) The Old black and white Photo:
The first picture is of four people. The second picture which is the manipulated picture has only three people in it. One person is completely removed from the picture and made to look as if the person was never there. This could cause controversies.

3) The magazine with the African-American:
The first magazine i.e Newsweek has a picture of a serial killer, who is a African American male. He is facing the camera.

The second Image is of the same person but it is darker than the original image. making the man look as if he was hiding in a shadow. This gives people the idea that he is guilty and dangerous.

4) E.T:
In this picture they have taken out the weapons. Changed the look of E.T and added more bikes and people in the picture. This is not a problem as it does not effect anything in a bad way. This picture is a good manipulation.

5) Two halves of the woman:
In this photo they have split up the women into two different sides. One is Perfect and the other imperfect. Image mauplation can be bad as you cant see the real image of the person. The woman in the picture is actually old and has wrinkles on her face as you can see on the right hand side.

6)Smoke:
In this picture there is more smoke than there actually was, and making it darker and making a "disaster" more bad than it actually was.

7) The Beauty and the Ugly:
The manuplated picture was amazing. In the manuplated image the girl looked very beautiful and young. Where as in the original picture the girl looked ugly and also older.