Before and After Comparison Project When someone says the word "edit," what is the first thing you think of? My first though when I hear this word has changed quite a bit as I go through this photojournalism project. It's changed from crossing out lines of text to adjusting brightness and saturation. With the technology we have today, we have the ability to completely change photos to our liking. From color to shadows; pretty much anything can be modified. Whole objects can even be taken out. Personally, whenever I take a photo, even if I'm not planning on using it for anything, I like to go in and adjust things here and there. When I'm done, I ask people what they think. Editing my photos makes them better and more personal. Here are some of the ones I've taken and edited using the editing options found on the iPhone...
Photoshop Manipulation Project To manipulate a photograph means to add of change the actual objects shown. For example, a photographer might take a power line out of a picture showing the view from the top of the mountain he/she hiked. Some other things you can do using photoshop include multiply the appearance of the same person or thing, making an object seem super small compared to its surroundings, or modifying a reflection in a mirror. These are all things that are easy to do using photoshop. For this project, as you can see, I chose to multiply myself 3 times in the same image. For this photo, I took multiple photos of myself in different positions using a stationary camera. Then, using photoshop. I cut the shape of myself out of all three pictures, making the rest of each layer invisible. Then I put all the layers on top the same scene but originally taken without me in it. The cut out parts showed up and the invisible layers didn't, making the picture look like there are 3 of me in it. I made this while following a tutorial. Click the button below to see the tutorial. I actually really like doing these kind of things. I really like to edit and create cool-looking photos so this was a really fun project for me. My older sister did something like this when she was in my grade and my younger sister and I helped her out with taking the pictures. Afterwards, my younger sister and I watched her put it together create one big thing. Even just watching her do it was super fun for me so I was super excited to do this project.
Creating a Photo Editing App - Scratch Project Using a program called scratch, I made my own photo-editing app. A series of tutorials also helped me with the programming (tutorial is linked below). To program each one, what I did was set up a broadcast to be sent to the picture when one of the editing blocks was clicking. For example, I programmed the pixelate button to broadcast a message to the picture when it was clicked. Then I programmed the image do react a certain way when it received the message. I did this with all of the photo editing buttons. For the reset button, I programmed the broadcast it sent to make the picture go back to its original appearance when received. In terms of what I find fun, I don't actually like programming as much if I'm being honest. I feel like it's to frustrating. I don't not like it necessarily but I wouldn't do this kind of thing for fun. Click on the buttons to go to the tutorial or the app that I created.
Photo Controversy: In this photo, as you can probably tell, the upright wrestler just won this match and a photographer decided to take a picture. I think this is a really nice picture except for the fact that the photographer manipulated. The picture on the bottom is the original picture. You can see the referee in the background, but if you scroll up, in the manipulated photo, the ref was taken out. The manipulated photo was actually entered into a contest and it won in the contest. After the Washington Post discovered it was manipulated, it was stripped of its prizes. Personally, I think that photo manipulation is fine but definitely not when the photo is being entered into a contest. In this example, manipulation was used to make it a better photo for the contest. But the contest is assessing photographers' photographing skills, not their editing skills. I think the photographer got what he deserved honestly. I don't think this photo should have won if it was manipulated. So if it's just your personal photo that you want to post on a social media account or something minor like that, I think people should be able to do that. But I don't think people should be allowed to manipulate photos and then enter them into contests because anyone can edit. To view the photo and the story behind it, click on the link below it.
My Opinion - Conclusion In conclusion, I think there are limits to manipulation in terms of photos. But it all really comes down to the specifics. Things like what the photo is for, or whether or not you're open about manipulating it. For example, if a photographer is hired to take a photo for a business as large as the Associated Press, I don't think manipulation should be allowed under any circumstances. I don't think photographers should be able take out or add anything. If they want to change the light or the shadows or something minor like that, fine, but it should be anything that completely changes the concept of the photograph. I have similar views on photos taken for advertisements. I go by the same rule: if it completely changes the concept of the photo, then it shouldn't be allowed. If the world is being told that this kind of make-up does a certain thing, the model in the picture shouldn't be manipulated. The photo should show exactly what the effects are because the purpose of the advertisement is to show what the product does. For contests, I already expressed my opinion, but briefly, I don't think manipulations should be allowed because photographers' photographing skills are supposed to be assessed, not their editing skills. If people wanted to asses editing skills, they could hold a contest featuring just that. For iffy magazines, personally, I don't really care if photos are manipulated but only because people know these types of magazines often lie. Moving on to photos for fine art, like photos for offices or decorations, I think it should be ok because the purpose of these types of images is to make things look nice and to please the eye. Lastly, in terms of pictures uploaded to social media accounts, I personally don't really like it when people manipulate their appearance but just because they're getting credit for something that isn't actually there. I don't think people shouldn't do it necessarily, but it does kind of annoy me. In the end though, it's their account and they can do what they want.
All in all, this unit has really made me realise that amount of fake things that we are exposed to everyday. I've realised that it's a bigger problem than I thought. Recently, a debate between evolution and intelligent design was assigned to us in science class. While looking for evidence and reason favoring evolution, I found a very helpful image that displayed embryonic similarities between animals. Shortly after, I discovered that even though this chart was in most science textbooks and was a widely taught idea, it was actually something made up by some scientist. This makes me doubt the things I see on the internet and even in textbooks. I think it's important to know when it's okay to manipulate a photo and when a photo shouldn't. You'd be surprised by the things people see on the internet and believe.
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