Photo Manipulation and Ethics

Photographers and everyday people are constantly manipulating their pictures. From adding things in to make the picture more exciting, to taking items away. This is also causing these photographers to loose their jobs while making the company they work for look bad along side them.

Manipulated pictures are unethical because it is giving the viewer a false reality. The pictures also give a false hope to people. The pictures may give hope for certain things to come for these events and then when the photograph is not 100% true and correct, it takes that hope away from people.

I believe this photo was most unethical because it is telling society the idea that if you want to be rich or famous, you must be thin, which according to TV Guide, Oprah wasn't. Even though Oprah was rich and famous before this picture was taken, the magazine obviously believed that they would have more reviews on the article replacing her body with another.  

I believe this photo was the least unethical because even though the picture was doctored with and gives a false image to millions, it did not affect anyones personal life besides the photographer who edited the picture, and the publisher. When an everyday person realizes this picture is false, I don't believe they would be deeply hurt and traumatized by it.