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Digital Photography Ethics

Digital Photography Ethics. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. What is the difference between:. Adjusting an image to correct a defect? Adjusting an image to remove a distracting minor element? Adjusting an image to emphasize something that the original photo didn’t emphasize?.

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Digital Photography Ethics

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  1. Digital Photography Ethics Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

  2. What is the difference between: • Adjusting an image to correct a defect? • Adjusting an image to remove a distracting minor element? • Adjusting an image to emphasize something that the original photo didn’t emphasize?

  3. For the sake of representing honest and accurate information, the digital editor should avoid anything that will change the actual event or scene as it was captured by the camera. This includes adding, removing or moving objects in such a way that the context of the event is altered. The digital image editor must be careful to let the photos speak for themselves. So it's not permissible to alter any aspect of place or time -- like removing wrinkles or gray hair. Fred Showker

  4. The National Press Photographers’ Association (NPPA) Code of ethics

  5. “As photojournalists, we have the responsibility to document society and to preserve its history through images.” “Accurate representation is the benchmark of our profession. “

  6. TIME darkened the handout photo creating a five o'clock shadow and a more sinister look. They darkened the top of the photo and made the police lineup numbers smaller. They decided Simpson was guilty so they made him look guilty.

  7. The photo is accurate, but is it necessary to display it? If the public needs the information in the photo in order to make informed choices for society, then we must run the photo.

  8. A house fire started by a 12-year-old boy playing with a cigarette lighter results in the death of his little brother. The news desk gets a moving photo showing the boy, despondent, sitting on the front steps of the gutted home. The photo is remarkable, showing all the devastation and emotion of that horrible moment in time. Do you run the photo?

  9. Do you help or not? Where does your moral responsibility begin and end?

  10. The magazine wrote on the credit page: Cover Photograph by Jim Myers Styling by Karen Eubank Accessories courtesy of Rancho Loco, Dallas; boots courtesy of Boot Town, Dallas; motorcycle and leather jacket courtesy of Harley-Davidson, Dallas; Leather pants by Patricia Wolfe Stock photograph (head shot) By Kevin Vandivier / Texastock

  11. If the photo looks real it should be real. You cannot assume that the audience will understand the manipulation.

  12. If you remove the wires, is that okay? What is the difference between a big lie and a little lie? How does your credibility hold up?

  13. What would be the difference if SI had simply cropped the picture? Think about what purpose a photograph serves in news: What does a photographer have to provide a news audience?

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