Photo Manipulation

People manipulate photos to create a different idea, this is done because people believe what the perceive in pictures so the media takes advantage of this and will either crop a photo, airbrush or manipulate it in anyway. This could potentially change the complete meaning of a photo for example, a picture of an earthquake in Italy, has been cropped, one showing a solider and a generator which insinuates that there has been a boom of some sort and the soldiers are clearing the ruble and searching for any survivors, another cropped version shows just the broken building and a crane this image shows that there could have been a natural disaster with the crane moving the ruble also again in an attempt to get survivors. An example of airbrushing would be a picture of Paul McCartney had a cigarette in one of his pictures, the cigarette was airbrushed out for the American public, this was done without his say so or anything. The last but not least, a photo could be unaltered in anyway but the caption for it could be something totally unrealistic to the events but the picture could resemble the event placed in caption.