Photojournalism Ethics and Computational Photography – PhotoShelter Blog

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Photojournalism Ethics and Computational Photography

How should the photojournalism industry handle ethical challenges brought about by rapidly changing technologies like computational photography?

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/10/46442/

Computational photography challenges our traditional conception of photography as a single exposure of light intensity captured by a photosensitive medium. As a thought experiment, consider a digital camera sensor where each pixel is capable of a different exposure, such that you’d never over or underexpose parts of the image. Is this single exposure “HDR” unethical?