Truth of a Photograph

For many years people have wondered and raise the question does the camera lie? This is a question that can swing people both ways, of course with modern technology editing images and manipulating them is a lot easier this could prove that the camera does lie. Also people were able to do it 60 or more years ago this could make people think that the camera has never shown the truth.

The camera does lie

With modern technology and photoshop it is easy to see that nowadays that it is easier to manipulate photos which could say that nowadays it is much easier to prove that the camera does lie.

This image was taken during the 1960s which was manipulated to make it look less horrifying and some of the blood around the body was moved. Of course back in this time it was much more difficult to this as there wasn't any software commercially available to do this like Photoshop does these days. Over time when Photoshop wasn't available people would edit photos to make them look less horrifying or to remove people, as their is a Soviet image taken around the second world war when one person in the images was executed, he was taken out of the photo. This was a regular thing not only for the Soviets but for many others. Using this you could easily say that the camera does lie and never has told the truth.

The camera doesn't lie

People may also say that the camera doesn't lie and it photographs what it can see and can do no physical changes and that is all done on software like Photoshop. But it is possible to alter pictures in camera by using different settings. People do believe that the actual camera doesn't lie but the person taking the photo does as they can then take their image and put it into Photoshop and alter how they want then.

This is an argument that can easily swing people both ways and it is easy to see why people would probably argue both ways when discussing this topic. It is easily possible to argue very well for both side but I do believe that with all the modern technology available for people to edit their photos in that the camera probably does lie.