Author : Pam Morris March 15 2015

From early times Photographers employed their technical skills to create images that satisfied their patrons’ requirements. Early group family photographs were often composited from several images due to the unavailability of some of the participants at the time of shooting[i] (Figure 8). In this image the poor post-production editing when viewed from today’s technology platform is patently obvious.

Images were frequently ‘corrected’ in post-development due to technical defects such as removing scratches in a negative, or in later times removing ‘red-eye’ in flash photography or adjusting for colour balance.

Figure 8 Werner A.and Sons Daquilla Family (date unknown)

[i] Lodriguss J, Catching the Light The Ethics of Digital Manipulation - http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/ETHICS.HTM Retrieved March 3rd 2015