I'm lecturing on ethics in digital media tomorrow

[Tom]

Any suggestions on things to cover?

NPPA's Code of Ethics

Was going to start with Henri Cartier-Bresson and how he asked to have the edges of his negatives printed so that he could prove that the image was not cropped.

Photo manipulation is not a new thing to the digital age.

Lincoln's head on Calhoun's body. Stalin airbrushing out enemies. Oprah's head on Ann-Margaret's body (seriously, who did that fool?)

I was going to talk about the Patrick Schneider pics from the Charlotte Observer.
http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/...08/ethics.html

Then the Miami Herald's making a composite to trash on the police department:
http://www.frankwbaker.com/miami_photo_alteration.htm

Brian Walski and how he made a composite of pictures while embedded in Iraq in 2003 and was fired from the LA Times.

Contrast that to my time now as a magazine/marketing/wedding photographer, where digital manipulation is not only accepted, but required.

Use some examples of how I have changed a picture for publications and for my brides.

[studiocygnet]

Thomas,
Check out this blog with links to discussions about digital reworking of others works, and Flicker theft of images in general. You may come up with some ideas here.
http://missaniela.com/blog/2009/03/1...ne-communities