The series of photos that Michael Christopher Brown (2016) have taken by his iphone in China are another typical examples for this case as well. In the picture taken in Dalian, the Instagram filter made it seem like an old photo, which is so consistent with the environment -- the city was dismantling its old buildings or constructing new ones on the old foundations and everything there looked old and shabby. Maybe Brown just wants to express that China was undergoing a giant society change and create a special visual effect through filter.
The second one of the female elevator operator displays a very strange image: the whole photo is quite dark, the red and green color form a strong contrast. Perhaps Brown chose this filter for making this photo conform to the theme of hospital by shooting gloomy and oppressive contents.
No matter Brown or Winter or any other filter-using photographers, they used filters just to achieve their aesthetic conceptions and provide a story rather than a simple image; these photographers want their audience to
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Nevertheless, making use of filters from Instagram is not totally contradictory to photojournalistic ethics, as long as users have a good grasp of manipulation degrees, because visually compelling images created by appropriate aesthetic technique might improve the storytelling, to some extent. Therefore, as long as the images still do not lose their ability of telling people what’s really going on, then a little photographic adjustment is acceptable, since people now are pursuing visual stimulation more and more and Instagram module has been a growing