Photo Manipulation

Today the art of photography is available to everybody. People take pictures, download them from the internet, change, crop and edit them at their own will.
There are less and less photographs that haven't been polished or retouched. This is the reason why many people today doubt this kind of art, and accuse it of being reproduced and fake.
The technology era drips into every pore of our society, and drastically changed many other aspects of art. However, I still believe in the beauty of photography and the intention of people to make it as perfect as could be. There is many ways how you could change the picture and I will show you today, how some of it could be done. For my project I used software called Picasa by Google. It is one of the most popular tools for editing your photographs.

The first picture that I used is me and my older brother that we took a few months ago. I went on Effects on Picasa and chose changing the colours. The other adjustment I made was in effect where I chose soft effect to emphasize his and my face on our shirts.

The second picture I used is the carnival festival that I watched a couple of years ago. I added the text on the picture, and enlarged the font. I also titled it to fit it in the picture. As you can see, the original photo is now slightly different than it was. The last step was done on blogger, when I chose small size of the picture.

 

Opportunity to alert photography very easy make problems in journalism today. According to the National Press Photographers Association, one of the major problems is that the public is losing faith in photojournalists,”[o]ur readers and viewers no longer believe everything they see. All images are called into question because the computer has proved that images are malleable, changeable,  & fluid. In movies, advertisements, TV shows, magazines, we are constantly exposed to images created or changed by computers. As William J. Mitchell points out in his book, The Reconfigured Eye, Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, we are experiencing a paradigm shift in how we define the nature of a photograph. The Photograph is no longer a fixed image; it has become a watery mix of moveable pixels and this is changing how we perceive what a photograph is. The bottom line is that documentary photojournalism is the last vestige of real photography. Journalists have only one thing to offer the public and that is credibility.”(NPPA)

In conclusion, some might say it is nicer, someone might totally disagree. But this is the beauty of the editing of photographs

Work Cited:

NPPA,National press photographs association, “Ethics in the age of digital photography: credibility”

http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/self-training_resources/eadp_report/credibility.html