Ethics reading

Digital Photography, a piece by Bonnie Meltzer, talks about how manipulating photos is not only sometimes disrespectful to the people in the photo, but also doesn't look great most of the time. I couldn't agree more with her statement. When people photoshop one person out of a picture for another person or move them to a different background in another photo, it often looks tacky and unprofessional. If you're moving a person from one image to another with consent, it's one thing, but to move a person to a different background without consent it's rude, and reflects a bad image on yourself. Photoshop is a very good tool to have, and it's different when you're photoshopping tourists out of your vacation photos. If it's your own photo, and what you're doing won't harm another person, or disrespect them in any way, then you can edit any of your photos that you please; But if the image is not your own or your making a noticeable switch of something that would be considered manipulating the photo, don't bother taking the time to edit the image.