Digital manipulation is an offense but in some case such as April fools and in Middle East doesn't have consequences. Manipulation commonly used such as cloning, color alternation or enhancement, copy and paste, and combining two pictures of same subject for a better composition is an offense and there's consequences to bear such as job loss and mainly your credibility as a photographer or photojournalist. Digital manipulation of an event for the government's success isn't an offense in Middle East such as; a cover up of a failed rocket missile in a launch of three missiles. The usage of the same subject in different photos during different times because of the subject's emotion is a strange thing but isn't an offense because of the time stamp, even though there is no name stated in the caption.
This photo seem to be the most unethical to me. The photo was manipulated to look as if the US guards was about to shoot an Arabian and his child if they do not sit right now. It was manipulated with two different photos at different time to make it looked as if the Arabian dad and child is closer to the guard.
In this magazine cover photo of national geographic, the pyramids are closer to each other than the real pyramids. The manipulation of cover of the photo was done to establish lines for more better dynamic touch to it. It doesn't seem to be unethical but the photo is a lie itself about the fact of the pyramids.
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