KARLA POMERO, Northern Wyoming News; Ethics of news photos in a digital world
"Ethically, for a news photo there is not much you can or should manipulate. We take out some of the yellow when shooting photos in certain locations due to the overhead lighting.
If using a flash and the lighting is wrong and I get people with red eyes I will use the tool to remove the red eyes because I know those people did not have red eyes at the time I took the photo.
That’s the key in news photography. The news photo must tell the story of what was happening at that exact moment, where it was taken at that moment. You must not alter the story and altering the photo alters that story.
If you photoshop out things in the background of a photo because they may be distracting – that’s altering history, the history of that photo.
One of the students said they will combine photos to get the exact composite they want. You can do that for art. You can not do that when telling news through photos."
