Picture Manipulation Essay

786 Words2 Pages

A picture can be misleading in so many ways ,it could be focused on something and never know what's really going on Manipulation is bad because it can make people think that something looks a certain type of way when it's really doesn’t. The word Manipulate means to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner:to manipulate people's feelings.For example you can go to an hotel website and look at the pictures and see what it looks like and the picture of the hotel can be zoomed in on the hotel and make it look nicer than what it really does. The reason that people use this form of manipulation is it’s because beneficial to their end-game.
(Photography, as we know it today, began in the late 1830s in France. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce used a portable camera obscura to expose a pewter plate coated with bitumen to light.This is the first recorded image that did not fade quickly. Niépce's success led to a number of other experiments and photography progressed very rapidly. …show more content…

Whatever is present in front of the lens is captured exactly onto the film and there is no scope for the image generated to show other than the reality present at that moment. But what matters is how that photograph was taken. The lights, the colors, the angle of the photography and the frame captured create a story of their own. Photographer uses such aspects to create an interpretation of reality, how he sees it and not necessarily how it appeared to everybody else also present at that

More about Picture Manipulation Essay

Open Document