Rob Haggart's The Photo Is Lying To You

Can you believe every photo you see? In “The Photo is Lying to You” by Rob Haggart was written about photographers that were taken by a photographer and photo shopped. The saying “one picture is worth a thousand words” Implies that pictures describing many things without reading or hearing about it. In the reading Haggart introduces a photographer name Ed Freeman who was working on a novel about surfing at the time when he took a picture of surfers he saw in Hawaii and photo shopped the picture to fit his own description of surfing. According to Haggart, Photographers have been photo shopping pictures since 1994. In the beginning, photo shopping was to help photographers remove shadows, distracting things in the background, and poles. Photo …show more content…
He explains when photo shopping was introduced, shows the development of photo shopping and the reason behind photo shopping before and now. He explains that “One of the earliest milestones in our current digital age of manipulation occurred in 1994, four years after the Adobe Photoshop was introduced” (para.10). Adobe Photoshop gave photographers help when photographers find things in their pictures that they don’t want. Photo shopping then became a big thing and photographers began to change majority of their pictures instead of small parts. The reason behind photo shopping was to get rid of shadows, blemishes, poles, mistakes anything that can keep a picture from being its best potential. “And yet the amount of manipulated photography in circulation only grows along with the number of publications willing to push boundaries” (para.14). This is describing that not a lot of photos that’s been tampered with get published in magazines, but photographers still Photoshop their pictures because they want them to express what they feel. All of this evidence supports Haggart’s purpose and clarifies his points about photo shopping