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Digital Manipulation in Editorial photography

In 1917 the photographic combinations of different images were created by commercial photographic studios to bring family members  together into one picture in reality not together for portrait shoots. there is three people on the left in the image appear to be floating in mid air because apparently cut out of other photos and pasted on top of a photo of the women at the right and re-photographed in a composite image.

Daquilla family from the early 20th century by
 A. Werner and Sons in New York.


Photographers correcting, manipulate and enhance in photoshop, they must deal with questions of both ethics and aesthetics. Ethics define on what we think is good and bad and conforming to accepted professional standards of conduct. Aesthetics is to deal with the nature of beauty, art and taste and things that are pleasing in appearance. Digital processing there's hardly a limit to what can be done to the image which are done with the best intentions.

Changes can be made to images that are unnoticable, so that there is now a discussion that photographs will no longer be allowed as evidence in courts of law.

viewers now they know that anything can be done to an image as films has played dinosaurs and aliens look real. Movies cause problems because viewers expect to be fooled in the cinema and tend to  get upset when fooled in an supposedly  truthful factual medium such as the news.

Purposes and intentions

Questions photographer should think when manipulate an image are, why are we doing this, what are our purposes and intentions? where do we draw the line? what is ethical in the digital manipulation and enhancement of a photo?

The simpleness in manipulating digital images with Photoshop, some people are questioning whether images are real or art and unsure to believe in anything they see.

Editing and enhancing images is important because of photographers motivation. why are we doing these things? are we doing them to deceive people? Photographer are doing it to make the subject more interesting and making it a better picture. Just like a writer enhances factual stories with metaphor and adjectives, photograaphers can enhance their images with photoshop techniques and tools such as contrast and colour enhancement.