My Picture LIES

For my Picture that lies, I picked two pictures from stock.xchng, a baby holding a flag and a monkey. I took the head off of the monkey with my bare hands (muahahaha) and put it on the baby (yeah, I'm sadistic like that). I flipped the monkey, cropped its head, put it on the baby, adjusted the color/hue levels, did some (intense) fixing around the head and then voila! Some crazy evil patriotic baby monkey thing! I manipulated it in such a way so that it would look like a baby with a monkey's head holding an American flag, which it does. It was not harmful because 1. it's for computer skills class and 2. I'm not showing it off as a "miracle of science" or some such claim. The article I chose was on photo manipulation. More specifically, it focused on photojournalism vs. photo illustration. In the former the reporter is trying to give the audience a depiction of what happened while in illustration the artist is attempting to convey a feeling or emotion or message. Essentially, reporters can misrepresent the truth, but I would challenge anyone to misrepresent art. I hope you enjoy my craftsmanship!

Peter

True lies. By: Salvo, Suzanne, Communication World, 07447612, Sep/Oct2008, Vol. 25, Issue 5