The Honest Lie About Photography Knowing what photographers do today with photography, how is it that anyone can trust anything that is put up on the internet knowing that it could potentially all be one big lie? All around the world there are pictures that have been altered and modified and transformed all together. According to N. Scott Momaday, photography is “authentic art, an expression of the creative imagination” (30). When people take pictures today, they deceive the people that look at the photographs by making them believe that someone or something is something completely different all together. By realizing how much manipulation occurs in today’s society with photography, one can infer that changes are definitely necessary to stop the lies that photography is spreading about people, places, things.
In Laura Mallonee’s article, “Infamously Altered Photos, Before and After Their Edits” she explains how photographic editing has been going on long before photoshop existed. “The images underscore the elusive, slippery quality of truth when it comes to photography” (Mallonee). In other words, with each and every edit made in modern photography today, a lie is told. In her article when she states this, she further elaborates about how when people post altered pictures everywhere; what is the point at
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In Rachel Handel’s article, “Picture Imperfect” she states how digital manipulation of photography has become so common in today’s society, that it is a “routine practice” (Handel) for today’s early and late photographers. If the routine practice keeps happening and growing at the rate it is now, who is to say that photographs without editing will just one day disappear? It is wrong and needs to stop before more damage is done. There are even jobs out there that employ people to lie about the practice of photography. The jobs employ the workers to “touch-up photographs”
Susan Sontag’s essay on how photography has limited people’s understanding of the world contains many interesting points that can be agreeable while at the same time having few that I tend to disagree with. Photography can be good and bad; it can open our minds up to new cultures and experiences through its imagery. However, at the same time it can limit our understanding of the world around us and of the world around the image it is portraying.
But what if those photographs were altered? Researcher wanted to see if they could use a fake photo and see if people would accept that as a true event. The researchers showed four people three photographs that were true and one false photograph. When the researchers interviewed the four participants, they found that 50% remembered the false event in the photograph. These studies showed that a substantial amount of false memories can be made using photographs. This experiment proved that memories aren’t very reliable and that photographs may be the best way to truly remember an event. Photographs can’t be easily disregarded or
Photography has been around for nearly 200 years and has advanced dramatically with the new technology. In 1826, when the first photograph was taken photography was a very basic art form, but soon after photographers figured out how to manipulate their photos. In today’s society, it is almost unheard of to look at photographs that are raw and unedited, but has it always been this way? Dating back to the first photograph in 1826 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, photography seemed to be raw, but only a few decades after those photographers discovered they could alter their photos to make them more appealing (“Harry Ransom Center”). Over the past 200 years photos of all different subjects have been manipulated through history and technology seems to be the culprit.
To continue, the development of new technologies, such as computers and image editing software, has increased and redefined the nature of false advertising. Programs such as Adobe Photoshop have made the digital manipulation of images possible. One of the functions of this software is “airbrushing”, which in this context refers to the technique used to conceal, eliminate, or alter the appearance of flaws. Image editing software has facilitated the “re-touching of photographs related to any characteristics directly relevant to the apparent ...
From squirrels to elephants, from dolphins to birds, how much of photographs are real? The answer is, not much. Photographing animals have changed immensely from the past as people began to manipulate animal surroundings and behaviors to help photographers capture the perfect moment. Bill McKibben goes into detail in “Curbing Nature’s Paparazzi” comparing photographed wildlife and reality, in hopes to change photographer's negative impact on animals and the public’s view of these unrealistic images. McKibben uses compare and contrast, effective diction, and multiple rhetorical questions to help inform and persuade the audience.
The modern world is full of photographs. They are used for ads, political campaigns, and magazines. However it can be hard to tell whether or not a photograph is real. Many are ‘doctored’ or altered in some way. These doctored photographs can be seemingly harmless, such as advertisements, but they can misrepresent a product or person. There is a fine line between what is ethical and what isn’t for doctored images. Photographs should never be altered in order to deceive individuals, damage someone’s reputation, or when they have a strong negative impact on self-esteem. However if doctored photographs are used for art or for minor touch-ups for advertisements that don’t misrepresent a product then
Video is one of the most compelling forms of communication of this time. Over the course of the past few years, the gradual but sure drift from analog to digital in video technology has not only improved the abilities of visual communication media to distribute data, but has also improved their abilities to manipulate the data that they distribute. Digital video technology has advanced to the extent that still image manipulation has been usurped by more powerful technological developments that allow elements of a video image to be manipulated in real-time. That is, objects or persons in a video image can be edited out or edited in while the image is in broadcast without the slightest glitch to suggest that some change has occurred; everything would look “real.” The advantages that this technology opens for visual media are extensive. Similar to some technologies, however, it opens up an exploitive edge. Pixels are plastic (can be changed) and using them to distort or manipulate reality is an opportunity open to all users of video manipulation tools. The ethics of such uses and the social considerations of how copyright laws would deal with a technology which manipulates digital works of authorship, works to which copyright automatically attaches, are issues worth considering. This paper explores the possible and actual, reputable and less reputable uses of this technology in an attempt to stimulate discussions about how “well-intended” technologies can be utilized by users in unethical and harmful ways. The paper also attempts to see where possible infringements of copyright’s fair use doctrine has occurred or could possibly occur through use of this technology.
Photography is defined at the art or practice of taking and processing photographs. To understand photography is having insight or good judgment to know how to take the picture, but also edit it if need be. Does photography limit our understanding of the world? What some people haven’t realized is that photography is all around us, whether it is in the person’s mind to see it or not. While we see photography throughout our daily routine, people dismiss the small types of photography and focus on the bigger sceneries like other countries beautiful cities and landscapes. It’s true that in this day and age, most photographs we see have been altered in some way. When photographers use Photoshop to edit our photos, we use many different ways to make that image appealing to the eye. Although, photographers unless told to do so will not change an image into something totally absurd that takes away from being astatically pleasing. Images are a gateway to the insight of the rest of the world’s cultures landscapes, and architecture, and photography is the key aspect to it. Photography is a one way to see the world, but it is better if you go and travel around the world to see it. In order to see if photography actually limits our understanding, we have to first look at the positive side of photography.
In order to win the race, brands sometimes exaggerate the result of their product to win more customers by using external tools or software. In the digital world everything can be done to a photo, and sometimes it changes the meaning of the image. In many areas of advertising (such as the fashion beauty world, health, fitness, diet pills, cos...
Throughout the recent years, Photoshop has become a widespread phenomenon amongst the world. With the rapidly developing inventions of camera’s and devices with cameras on them; posting pictures on social media has become extremely popular. Along with that, the pressure to appear perfect in said pictures has increased dramatically. Society has become exceedingly focused on the idea of perfect, and what perfect looks like. Especially now, with growing photo sharing phone applications such as Instagram, photo editing is becoming even more popular. Photoshop has proven to have many beneficial uses; however, it also has very negative consequences such as false perceptions, and misleading people.
Time has a way of exposing frauds, and such was the case with these deceitful photographers. Over the decades, genuine researchers and photographers sprung up. Because of the beginnings of their profession, they came under much scrutiny and still do to this day. But in the current
The future of photography industry is unclear, and the fragility of an image the digital realm has
Photography is a mindful medium of expression, perspective, interpretation and can sometimes be truth. The changes throughout the history of photography have changed how people see the image they're looking at. In the 19th century, they were no editing options or software of any kind. You just go through the process and take the photo and people could easily tell it was real. Of course it would a shock to see what was once a real life event in that time period, but then transferred on paper "capturing" the moment itself. The truth could easily been seen, now in the 21st century, most of that has changed. There are
The ability to alter images can open creative outlets for photographers and In turn, produce better quality work. Any photog...
Taking photographs and photography itself is a great tool of power in many different aspects of life that one might not realize day to day. Photography has the power to reveal things that if expressed in words, would cease to be as powerful a truth. It serves as evidence of something larger. Yes, photos can be manipulated- yet because they can it makes the viewer even more cautious and observant on the details of these photos. Taking pictures is so much more than what it is painted to be on the surface. It is not always superficial and inconsequential. If you look deeper into the photo meaning and the details about the photos’ source, you observe things you would have never seen otherwise, like the slight hint of sorrow on her face, the contradiction in human ability, and the subtle external truths about the reason we do things, such as take pictures.