Is it “morally” correct to manipulate digital images?
American publications and agencies are particularly hot on the subject of manipulating digital images. I would never manipulate one beyond what might have been done in a darkroom ie: a bit of contrast alteration, burning in, lightening up, or trying to make the colour more accurate. I think it is probably ‘ethically’ incorrect to do anything beyond this in editorial photography as this implies an alteration in the subject matter and a subsequent debasement of ‘journalistic’ standards.
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