Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A. Some of the main points are at, what point is an image altered so much that it becomes unethical. It goes over how some magazines like people magazine have very few guidelines for how an image should be altered, whereas reputable newspapers like The Washington Post and The New York Times have strict guidelines as to how much photos should be altered.

B. Newspapers like the New York Times and The Washington Post want to be taken more seriously than tabloid newspapers that are sensational and feature heavy photoshop. The Post and The Times don't let their reporters photoshop pictures because they want to be completely honest and don't want to disrespect their subjects.

C. I think that you can manipulate an image as much as you want as long as you clearly disclose the fact that the image has been tampered with so people know that this isn't exactly what actually happened.

I think this image is probably the most unethical because it was so obviously tampered with because the person who photoshopped this image spliced together two completely different images that were in completely different scenarios. Secondly, this image is unethical because it was made to smear a political figure and you shouldn't fake pictures to help win a political position.

I don't think this photo was unethical because, although it spliced together two separate photos very obviously, it wasn't aimed at anyone specifically, I think this was just a misconception by vanity fair and it wasn't anything super controversial.