Photo Manipulation, and Ethics

What I got out of this article was that manipulation of photo's has been around ever since the camera became widely used. But with time the manipulation of photos has not not stopped, only the rules have.  In this new age of advanced technology, many things have not only become easier, but things not thought to ever be a possibility.  As the ethics for photographic manipulation is yet to be set in stone, time has continued on making the manipulation of photos much faster than previously executed.  But while many media outlets, have strict rules when coming to the matter, it seems others just have "loose" guidelines when it comes to photo manipulation. As evidently seen in the current events happening right now, and we can hopefully learn that in order to set a precedent, all of a certain type must be held to the same standard. No opinions, only fake and real, and right and wrong. We must act on this quickly before the meaning of something being fact, is changed forever. The regards in which  some media outlets have for the pursuit of truth is respectable. Newspapers like the NewYork Times, setting a strict set of rules when coming to the altercation of photos, absolutely no change to the color of photos, and other standards that photographers must uphold when working for them. Now everyone wants their work to be the very best it can be, and there are some things you can do. For example things like fixing red eye, touching up on anything small, I would say would be ethical, but when you try to change the photo to be perceived in another mood, or make people feel something that they would not have felt with the original photo is what is unethical.

Out of the pictures shown in the article, It is fairly clear that the most unethical photo is the photo of the Wisconsin crowd, in which they inserted a black student, to make people see that there is in fact diversity in their school. This is not only the most unethical, but the saddest photo, because they could not find any photo with real diversity in their school, but still wanted people to believe that diversity does infact exist in the University of Wisconsin.

The least unethical photos, of the ones displayed in the article would be the doctored photo of Katie Couric. The reason for this is because, it while possible suggesting somethings about her, I take it as they just wanted the photo to look better, and not much appears to be changed, it is not trying to make you feel any certain way about her.