National Geographic Warm-up and Photo Manipulation and Ethics

The first thing that caught my eye in this photo is the lighting being inner twined with the tornado. Another thing is having the stars being above the dark clouds. Also, the color of the storm. It is an autumn orange. All these factors makes this picture my favorite.

In my world if I took a picture and submitted it to this photo contest I would obviously take a picture about nature because it's national geographic. I like pictures of animals off guard, doing something unexpected. And to get a picture like that I would get to travel, so that is a bonus.

Image manipulation is terminal offense at most U.S daily newspapers. In this article Mark Hancock writes about some examples where photos were manipulated and the consequences of the ones who messed with the picture. In almost all of the examples everyone who manipulated a picture lost their jobs.

This type of photo edition can either be acceptable or unethical but it really depends. In my opinion I find this type of editing acceptable if the editing doesn't change the truth of the picture. It can be considered unethical if the role concept of the picture is different.

I think that this photo editing is acceptable because it didn't change anything but the coloring of the picture. It just gave the picture a darker look. But nothing about the picture changed.