Photos That Lie

I choose this particular photo because it was taken for my senior yearbook photo. The photo of me watching a golf shot originated from my senior yearbook photo shoot. It was manipulated by placing Megan Fox in way that it looks as if she's leaning on my shoulder. I also added the cartoon penguin on the golf cart because I thought it would add a quirky element. I manipulated the photo because 1) it was for an assignment and 2) because I thought Megan Fox leaning on my shoulder would be quite amusing considering her position. Some people would view this manipulation as harmful because Megan Fox's position is quite raunchy. However, in my opinion, no one is going to see this besides the class. So no harm, no foul. This photo manipulation relates to my article in the sense that this doctored photo never happened. I wish it did. 

In Changing History: Doctored Photos Affect Memory for Past Public Events, Sacchi, Agnoli, and Lotfus' articulate on how doctored photographs of past public events affect memory for those events. They articulate, "In everyday life it is much easier for people to encounter fake pictures of public events than to come across ‘doctored photographs that depict them doing things they have never really done' ". (Sacchi, Drrio L.M., Franca Agnoli, and Elizabeth F. Loftus). The authors go on to say

Works Cited

Sacchi, Dario L. M., Franca Agnoli, and Elizabeth F. Loftus. "Changing history: doctored photographs affect memory for past public events." Applied Cognitive Psychology 21.8 (2007): 1005-1022. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 11 Nov. 2010.