In almost all photos we see of people are manipulated. Like the picture above women and men are changed to fit a look of "perfection", doing this to people whether it is in any type of photojournalism is portraying a lie. In general I really don't care to much for photo manipulation or photo shopping, I feel as if all the truth of the picture is being taken away and giving what appears to be more glamorous. When doing this we see what appears to be the way people should be, when I know that there are more women with the body of the woman on the left than the body on the right (above). Or when enhancing colors in the Bahamas and other foreign places we are now seeing a place that is breath taking, but also we are being shown a place that doesn't truly exist. I think that most pictures taken the correct way will show the truth to something more than manipulating it to create what one may think of as more attention catching. Even doing things like thickening fire in a taken picture in photojournalism or adding animals to a picture is considered unethical, and I agree because it is portraying more than the truth, added lies.
Photo manipulation can turn a picture into a completely different image than it was originally. Some people may not even notice that a photo was manipulated, until they see two images that were taken of the same subject, but look completely different (like the one above). It's very interesting to see what can be done when manipulating images, but at the same time the edited image can give a false illusion of what the picture really is.
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