Nation Grographic photos and Ethics in Photography

National Geographic Warm-up:

This is probably my favorite picture because it doesn't look real. It looks as if this is from another world, and I think that is really cool. I also like it because the lighting is amazing. The shadows on the rocks in the cavern is perfect and adds an amazing depth. I also love how the light being cast on the sand from the sun looks kinda blueish, adding to it looking unreal.

If I were entering a photo contest, I think I would experiment with sunsets, or sunrises, and try to maybe get my dog to lay down and pose. Something maybe like my dog laying down and the sunrise behind him, or maybe trying to get a reflection of the sunset in my dog's eyes would be pretty cool.


Photo Manipulation and Ethics:

In the article, it talks about bad ways to edit photos. It is okay to edit photos, to an extent. If you are going to be putting a photo in the newspaper or a magazine, it is best to not add or take anything away. Unless you are maybe changing the lighting or something along those lines, you shouldn't really edit it much. If you are submitting your photo somewhere and you add or take away main objects, you could get into a lot of trouble. Editing photos shouldn't be adding a building or changing it from the original to lie about what the original outcome was. Editing should be about changing minor things, but keeping the main picture the same.

I think this photo is one of the most unethical editing, because they not only changed the appearance of Oprah's body by putting her head on Ann Margaret's body, they also changed Ann Margaret's face by switching it out with Oprah's face. This is, in my opinion, a horrible thing to do. It is sending a message that Oprah's body isn't perfect, and Ann's face isn't perfect by completely taking them out and replacing them. This is the part of editing that I hate, because it is changing the appearance of people, especially women because it's not their real body. 

Even though this is unethical, I don't think it is an unethical as the rest. All Time Magazine did was darken the photo from Newsweek to make it look emotionally darker and more saddening. If they took this picture from Newsweek without permission or something, that is a different story. But editing ethics wise, I do not think this is as bad as the rest. Yes, he is darker, but the editing doesn't make him look darker, because the rest of the picture is darker too, such as the letters at the bottom of the pictures, and the edges of the picture.