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Digital Images

Digital images impact almost everyone in the modern world, both in our personal and professional life. For myself personally, I encounter digital images everywhere, every day of my life. From social media, to visual references for classes, to the photography I produce. In my personal life I encounter digital images when I am using social media, whether that be looking at different images on Pinterest that are a source of inspiration to me, or if its Instagram or Facebook and I am seeing the digital images my peers, and friends and family are posting. I also encounter digital images day-to-day in my own personal work, when I am capturing and processing my photographs. I feel like digital images shape my experience of the world in the way that they don't. Because the world is so saturated  with digital images now that I don't generally interact with/notice them in my day to day life. 

My thoughts on ethics and aesthetics within the photo editing community, is that any amount of editing/ manipulation is fine, so long as its being documented somewhere (even if it's the fine print) that it is a digitally manipulated photo. I think it's important though that people are critical of any of the digital images they're seeing now, and that (just like all news) they are getting their information (in this case visual information about a person, being, place or event) from a wide breadth of sources.

As far as the digitally edited images that have been printed/posted to news journals/newspapers, I think it is the responsibility of those outlets to use the guidelines of "is this digital edit, changing what is historical and accurate".  I also believe that it is the responsibility of these outlets to have to have their own standards in place and back up their photographers/editors. I believe the most impactful change is the Iranian Missile Launch photograph.  


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