Photo Ethics- Photo manipulation

Photo manipulation is basically where you cut different parts of a photograph and paste them all together to make it look different.

Here are some other examples of photo manipulation


Oprahs face was blended to fit onto someone elses body.

Semitotics and representation

Semiotics: is the study of signs and images
Signifier- The word itself
Signified- The image and meaning which you get from it
Denotation: The basic literal meaning taken from something what you see.
Connotation: A personal meaning you get from seeing something, what you assosiate with the image.

Semitotics and representation

Photo Journalism

Photo journalism is about using photography to tell a story and show the reality of an event. It is about being able to capture the photo at the right moment and being able to capture a photograph that shows an accurate record of events. Henri Cartier Bresson was a french photographer and became the face of photo journalism.