Ethics are moral principles or they are rules which are acceptable by society. Every person has their own morals. These principles can be completely different to the ethical rules. This is the reason why there are so many discussions around digital photo manipulations. There is very thin line between what is ethical and what is enhancement. Basically, the viewers judge the photo and decide what is ethical or not.
There are different purposes of taking photos. If the photo is taken only for artistic purposes the aesthetic play a great role then than photo deal with beauty, taste and enjoyment. This manipulation is accepted as ethical. The other reason can be personal and image manipulation does not any play role at all. However, political or economical purposes are different. If your purpose is to portray a scene as truthful, then it's not ok. Besides this, it is not ethical to manipulate picture of political heads without their permeation or manipulate photos to create new pictures with different context.
Sometimes manipulation is just necessary. The example is to make printable bad photographs. The contrast, bright and size change of the photo can make it much nicer and more realistic. The second example is red eye in photos. The many pictures still would have red eyes if photographers didn’t change the original scene by adding the flash.
All things together, it is not for 100% clear where is the line of ethical principles and where is moral one.
The purpose in digital photo manipulation is very important. So is the photographer artist or he made photo to create lies?
There are different purposes of taking photos. If the photo is taken only for artistic purposes the aesthetic play a great role then than photo deal with beauty, taste and enjoyment. This manipulation is accepted as ethical. The other reason can be personal and image manipulation does not any play role at all. However, political or economical purposes are different. If your purpose is to portray a scene as truthful, then it's not ok. Besides this, it is not ethical to manipulate picture of political heads without their permeation or manipulate photos to create new pictures with different context.
Sometimes manipulation is just necessary. The example is to make printable bad photographs. The contrast, bright and size change of the photo can make it much nicer and more realistic. The second example is red eye in photos. The many pictures still would have red eyes if photographers didn’t change the original scene by adding the flash.
All things together, it is not for 100% clear where is the line of ethical principles and where is moral one.
The purpose in digital photo manipulation is very important. So is the photographer artist or he made photo to create lies?
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