Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A. The main point in the website about manipulating photos is pretty much that if you do something to change the photo even if it is something small you still have to state a claim that the photo was edited. If you don't do this it would result in consequences for whoever published it.

B. For the Washington Post they say that no colors will be altered from the original scene. This says nothing about cropping or calling so who knows if the photos are accurate or not just that the colors are the same.

C. I believe the only thing that would be acceptable to do to a photo to not cross the line would be only to crop the image. Anything else like scaling it or altering color completely makes it a false photo.

D. To me this is the worst and most unethical because it completely ruins the photo to add something that wasn't even in the photo in the first place. If you are going to publish something like this you should at least say that the photo was altered and the black person in it wasn't originally there.

E. There is no picture of it but I think the least unethical thing is simply cropping the photo. Cropping doesn't change anything inside the photo it just changes where the photo starts and ends. I completely understand why someone would want to cut something out of the picture to make it better.