Erid Jata
Photography
PHOTO MANIPULATION PROJECT
Photo Project 1.
Photo 1
Edited Photo 1
I started this project with editing photo number 1 first by making it black and white. Then I edited the contrast, brightness, ambiance and shadows. Then I used healing to fix my eyes to make them all black, and a little bit on the shoes to not have too much of a white contrast on my all black outfit. My idea in this project was to turn my original photo to a movie like scary moment, like a no way out of this hallway type, since this picture was taken during Halloween. But my editing continues following.
Final Photo
Photo 2
Photo from internet from this link.
To make it a little bit scarier I found the picture of the skull in the link underlined under the skull picture. Using GIMP I selected the skull layout and put it on my hand, like I'm holding a skull as a 'toy'.
These pictures are worked on Adobe Photoshop Express for the lighting and effects, and the skull was added using GIMP.
Photo Project 2.
Photo 2, taken from zedge.net
Photo 1
I have started with this picture taken a few weeks ago and to me is one of the best spots to view the city, specially at a clear night, with all the lights and everything. I have edited this picture to increase it's quality by editing the brightness, highlights, shadows, put a little Drama effect using Snapseed App. Then with a photo of a planet, since I am a big fan of stars and the galaxy, I overlaid picture 2 to the sky of picture 1. Personally, I would enjoy having this view on a sunset and would give me a great satisfaction, so that is why i choose to edit photo 1 this way. Hope you enjoy it too.
These pictures are worked on the Snapseed App.
Final Photo
1. Explain what you did and why you made the changes. Do you think your edited images could confuse or misguide the audience if they can't see the originals? Please explain.
Please find the explanation of what is done and why is already on the first section where I have uploaded the pictures. I do not think my edited images would confuse or misguide the audience because on both of my pictures I have put details that maybe would cause curiosity and make them to take a closer look at the picture, but other than curiosity I do not think that my pictures would confuse the audience.
2. Is it ethical news media to publish your edited or unedited images and to present them as press photographs? Please elaborate why your photos should or should not be used by news media?
My images are not press photography, so I would say that my pictures are not to be published as press photography. First of all, my pictures are manipulated. I did not just edit my pictures to make them a better quality, I have manipulated them by adding other images on the original image to add some effects on the picture. Like adding the skull to my hand on the first photo project, and adding a planet on the sky on the second project, which even if it is to be used as a press photography under a title that would make you curios like “Planet X showing on top of Downtown Toronto!” would still be unbelievable to most of the people since we all know that something of this type has never been seen and yet is impossible to be seen by the human eye.
In addition to that information, I would like to add that photojournalists should follow a code of ethics. That includes some rules that photojournalists and visual media news production managers should follow in order to provide accurate information and to represent the truth. And also, the editing allowed to be done to the image published by the media or photojournalists should be those of improving the quality of the picture and nothing else. The editing of my pictures is far from that.
I am also including a few of the rules (which I did not follow) from the code of ethics below:
- Be accurate and comprehensive in the representation of subjects.
- Resist being manipulated by staged photo opportunities
- Editing should maintain the integrity of the photographic images' content and context. Do not manipulate images or add
or alter sound in any way that can mislead viewers or misrepresent subjects.
3. What are the main differences between art and press photography? Are your edited and unedited images press or art photographs?
The differences between art photography and press photography is that they serve the audience in different concepts. They are both made the same way, yes, but the way of delivering or the reach they have on the audience is different. Art photography has a different meaning, it’s art. It is created to make the audience to enjoy, participate with the art work, make them think of their own way about the art work. Art photography is beautiful because you can edit the images as you wish, your imagination is the limit. Art photography makes you wonder what might the author was thinking, what is he trying to express, also what would happen if the reality as we know it wouldn’t exist the reality is that exact work of imagination, how would we percept ourselves in that reality. Or also just as how calming a well worked image might be, the peace that brings to your soul even for a singe moment.
On the other hand, press photography is not less important than art photography. Press photography has made possible for us to view things as they are, things that we might have not known how for example different parts of the world live, or how war affects people in and around it, for example. Press photography has had a significant role in society since the early years. Let’s take the ‘Migrant Mother’ of Dorothea Lange for this example. When Lange took the pictures of the Migrant Mother, she was not supposed to publish them, make them press photography. But she did use them as press photography to spread a message, a reality of how some people, like Thompson at the time, were living in those hard times of the whole nation. She did achieve her goal, since the ‘Migrant Mother’ became a symbol of the migrant farm workers during the great depression, and how they were living, eating, although she did not represent the 100% true side of the story according to Florence Owens Thompson a.k.a. the Migrant Mother, she still was able to touch some hearts and make a change or help them the time.
My point is that press photography has to be represented the way reality is, while with the art photography we can play around and get what press photography cannot give us.
I am representing my photos as art photography since I am not representing the truth and have altered the images as per my imagination, not only to make the quality better but to give these pictures some detail that might make the audience curious to take a closer look at my pictures.
Links used in the making of this page:
Planet Photo from zedge.net Wallpapers.
Note: I have downloaded this picture a while ago and do not posses the exact link for the image nor the author of that work.