Many people take pictures, but people's use of pictures varies. Some put there pictures in photo albums for future generations and others put there's in magazines and newspapers for profit. Occasionally, someone will doctor a photo by cropping someone out, resizing, adding an object, or some other type of manipulation. Doctoring a photo is not problematic for anyone who does not intend to present the photo as a media or historical document.
After looking at many pictures that had been doctored, I chose one that was first edited in 1910. Click on the link to see: <http://news.cnet.com/2300-1026_3-6033210-20.html?tag=mncol>
This photo is an instance in which an extra addition is not harmful to anyone looking at the picture. The fish has obviously been enhanced to make it bigger and the man was clearly added to the photo. The photo first showed up in Ottawa, Kansas. The changes made to the photo are not harmful because the picture is of a postcard. Because it is a postcard, no benefit will come to the photo other than an interesting story. However, if the photo had been submitted to a newspaper and printed for showing the largest fish ever caught, then it would have been found as fraud and undergo disciplinary actions.
In this way, the manipulation of this photo is not harmful because it provides comical value and does not expect to be taken as absolute truth.
I chose this picture because of its aesthetic appeal and because my father once showed me a similar picture when I was a child and did not tell me that the situation didn't actually happen until I was 10 years old.
Well, that's it for now!
John Runge
jrunge@trinity.edu
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I agree with you that sometimes, even if the pictures are enhanced, it's not that big of a deal or harmful to others. Great blog, very interesting!
ReplyDeleteSo photo editing is not harmful if it's:
ReplyDelete1)not official or historical
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2)comic and obviously so.
Interesting how you remember something similiar from your childhood!
ReplyDeletethis is a good blog entry. i agree that many times picture manipulations are harmless.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, editing or photoshopping pics can be purely for fun. There is so much drama in the world today, it's cool to just have fun with photos!
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