Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Processing the News

a.
There is a lot of controversy on photo manipulation and they had to build some consensus about what is not acceptable to make everybody happy. It talks a lot about photographers that eroded the public's trust in documentary images. Photomanipulation takes photojournalists down a dark road. Photojournalists are supposed to be the honest ones that show the truth of their stories. This is the hardest time to be a photojournalist. Manipulation and lying could cause readers to not take situations around the world seriously. Every digital photo has a trail when it passes through a camera or is processed. Photographers needed to precisely document the process they went through to arrive at the final version of any photo they want to be considered documentary. Processing is everything done to turn data into an image. Professionals need to make their work verifiable. The more you show how it was produced, the more people will trust your photos. If photojournalists make their work more trustable, they may be opened up to more opportunities and not held back by past issues.
b.
You have to make sure you don't over photoshop anything in photojournalism. It's taken very seriously. Make sure you can show the exact process of how you got the final product of your photo.
c.
Don't photoshop unless absolutely necessary. Take photos of things that are real and make sure it's the absolute truth. 

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