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Where do we draw the line when it comes to digitally "retouching" photos???

ABC News is running an interesting look at manipulation of digital images in the media (link). Based on the article, one might think that the phenomenon is limited to celeb-type and making them look "beautiful".

7 years ago at the school I was teaching in we had a very serious incident of school violence in which several students and staff were injured. The media descended on the school within minutes and "hyped" the story for days. As the Media Arts/Communications Technology teacher, I used the media issues as an avenue to discuss the events with my students once school resumed a few days later. One of the issues we grappled with was a photo that was run by a local paper of students gathering for a vigil outside the school in the days following the incident. The photo had been noticeably altered as its composition was impossible to achieve naturally (we went out on the field with cameras to try and recreate the view/angle that was shown in the photo and were convinced by our results that the photo was doctored). There was no clear bias in the way the photo was done (didn't appear to be part of any mal-intent to portray events a certain way), but seemed to be done simply for aesthetic reasons. Nonetheless, it served as a pretty powerful reminder to my students to question what they see

http://www.commun-it.org/community/timh/weblog/371.html

Where do we draw the line when it comes to digitally "retouching" photos???

ABC News is running an interesting look at manipulation of digital images in the media (link). Based on the article, one might think that the phenomenon is limited to celeb-type and making them look "beautiful".

7 years ago at the school I was teaching in we had a very serious incident of school violence in which several students and staff were injured. The media descended on the school within minutes and "hyped" the story for days. As the Media Arts/Communications Technology teacher, I used the media issues as an avenue to discuss the events with my students once school resumed a few days later. One of the issues we grappled with was a photo that was run by a local paper of students gathering for a vigil outside the school in the days following the incident. The photo had been noticeably altered as its composition was impossible to achieve naturally (we went out on the field with cameras to try and recreate the view/angle that was shown in the photo and were convinced by our results that the photo was doctored). There was no clear bias in the way the photo was done (didn't appear to be part of any mal-intent to portray events a certain way), but seemed to be done simply for aesthetic reasons. Nonetheless, it served as a pretty powerful reminder to my students to question what they see