Article 2

When newspapers and magazines manipulate photographs, they tell an altered story. In the Beijing photograph, the crowd surrounding the lone man facing the tanks, clearly represents a rally or protest of some sort. This manipulation of the photograph could cause some people to think about a completely different situation than the original photo represented. As mentioned in the article altered photos could rewrite history. If photo editors are not careful, one day they may go too far and cause countries to go to war, cause governments to change their minds, and manipulate the news to serve them.

Photos should not be manipulated for content but for print quality. This refers to editing the brightness and contrast and white balance to correct an image taken in poor lighting conditions. These tools should only be used to make a photo look like real life and to print better on paper. For example if and image was taken in low light and came out dark the editor should be able to brighten the image. If a photograph was taken and it is correctly lit buy the image seems to have a yellow tint due to white balance error, you may certainly edit the photo to maintain a correct color balance. It would not be ok to enhance the colors of images to make parts of an image stand out when the do not in real life.

Pieces of images should not be used to make one photograph for news. The image of Martha Stewart uses Stewarts head was placed on a models body and clearly misleads every reader. At first glance, Stewart looks like she is thin and attractive after coming out of prison. This is an example of what not to do with images. Readers will be outraged if they find out your images were manipulated.