Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Fashion photography manipulation

In the first video, the photo editor distorted her features, making her had a taller neck and bigger eyes and lips and defined cheekbones and things like that to make the model look less like ordinary people and more like models and what is said to be beautiful. 

In the second video the photo editor would smooth out her skin and make her elongated and skinnier and have bigger eyes and changed almost every part of her body.  He made her look completely different. 

In the third video they changed almost everything about her. They made her unrealistically skinny and made her blemishes go away and made her have longer hair and distorted her features to make her look like a new person. 

It isn't ethnically acceptable to do this because it sets unrealistic examples and makes people think that they need to be photoshopped to be pretty. 

Changes that are okay would be changes to things such as lighting or something that doesn't really change the way the model looks or doesn't make people have unrealistic expectations. 

The differences between photojournalism and fashion photography edits are that in photojournalism, the edits may be to tell a better story or get the point across and in fashion photography it is to make the people look skinnier or "prettier". 

In fashion photography this makes people look less realistic and makes unrealistic expectations for people. In photojournalism it can change the story and even make it far from the truth, especially since a picture is a thousand words. This affects the ethical practice of each because in the modern day, almost all fashion photography is photoshopped and so is some photojournalism. This can distort the truth. 

None of the people in the videos are guys because they don't have as high of beauty standards and people think girls have to be perfect and skinny etc. which is sexist. 


1 comment:

  1. You did a great job on these answers. It makes me sad that you skipped two questions so I can't give you a 100. 92

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