correct bad photos? ... cheating ?
2007-03-04 02:35:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
This question is totally dependant upon which field of photography you are talking about. If you are refereing to photo journalism, then certainly any kind of photo manipulation outside of color or tonal corrections are ethically wrong. When you pick up a newspaper you need to know that that the photos are real, and that the photographers are upholding the standards of photo journalism. People have faith in photography as being the truth, it is the reason as to why we don't rely on painters anymore to illustrate the news. This paradigm that photography is the truth is also the reason as to why you even question the ethics of manipulating a photo. Photography is really important in our world, so important that based on one photo wars can start or end. So you can see that if you were a photo journalist and you manipulated an image by adding,subtracting or modifying the contents of a photo in photoshop you would not be only cheating, but you could be commiting a crime onto the society as a whole.
On the other hand if you are talking about fine-art photography and commercial photography where creativity and the artists vision is often times more essential than conveying truth, then yes manipulation is ok. Unlike say crime scene photography, or photo journalism where people are looking at the images in search of some kind of truth, when you look at a photo by famed fine-art/commercial photographer like Richard Avedon or Joel Peter Witkin you aren't necessarily searching for truth. However, if you are a commercial product photographer and you are photographing a computer for Apple and you decide to completely change the color of the computer and add other features to it i.e, extra DVD drive, bigger monitor etc...then yes you are cheating, and in particular you are cheating the consumer and this is called false advertising and there are laws against it.
2007-03-04 14:55:59 · answer #1 · answered by wackywallwalker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-28 23:17:19 · answer #2 · answered by Beth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not "cheating" persay. If you adjust the photo so that everything looks better and the people who are in the photo are happier with it, then great!
However, don't try to pass it off as original. It IS cheating to say that you took the picture that way and that you are just that great of a photographer.
The act of photo editing in itself isn't cheating though. It can be a real asset when needed and used correctly. It is just no longer original. It is edited.
2007-03-04 03:02:38 · answer #3 · answered by surfchika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.....in most cases. Sometimes in articles the people who take picture will use photoshop to decive other so then it turns the picture fake. Alot ofthe picture u see of movie stars that make them look bad are photoshopped.
I am a photographer and I use photoshop alot and I dont use it to turn the picture fake but mostly to satisfy what my customer wants. Like removing freckles or scars. In my opinion it is part of who they are but if they dont like it then I have to remember they are paying my bills!!!!! Photographers us photoshop sometime to take ,what I call "hard spots" out of there face to make it look more appeling. Like pimples or such...... I use it when I advertise because nobody wants to seem my ad with a person with a big zit in the middle of there forhead!!!!
Photoshop is something that is very improtant to know about and be good at in the coming future becuase technology is so advanced. Now our cameras can catch so much more and so photoshop is there to fix what people dont like.
2007-03-04 13:24:19 · answer #4 · answered by cwood6_10 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends what you're trying to do.
Pass something off a news story, yeah, that's cheating.
Improve composition, color balance and remove a pimple from a pic of your girlfriend so you can frame it, not cheating.
2007-03-04 02:44:39 · answer #5 · answered by dBalcer 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think its fine to use photo shop, its just for fun. And hey, if you can make your self look better while having fun, then what the hell.
2007-03-04 02:39:01 · answer #6 · answered by cait 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nope its called being creative. Holiday brochures - the pictures are enhanced, does that mean the place will look different?
2007-03-04 02:38:32 · answer #7 · answered by STACEY O 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the picture should be listed as "Edited" not fake.
2007-03-04 02:44:08 · answer #8 · answered by kelly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NEVER, WHO TOLD YOU THAT???
2007-03-04 08:26:16 · answer #9 · answered by bigonegrande 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋