Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Fashion

Video #1
Changes made:

  • Plumped lips
  • Longer neck
  • Eyes/eyebrows moved down
  • Thinner neck
  • Larger eyes
  • Contoured edges of face

Video #2
Changes made:

  • Lighting
  • Makeup/Hair
  • Eyes Bigger
  • Shoulders moved up
  • Stomach made flatter
  • Legs thinned and lengthened
  • Elongated neck
  • Brighter, highlighted hair
  • Lightened skin
Video #3
Changes made:
  • Shrunk legs and butt
  • Thinned out calves
  • Breasts larger
  • Erased fat layers under arm
  • Changed tone of skin
  • Smoothed out cellulite
  • Smaller hands
  • Thinner waist
  • Smaller head size
  • Plumped butt
  • Fuller hair and extensions
  • Thinned face
  • Skinnier arms
1. It is not ethically okay to change a person's appearance like this because it is basically telling them that their body should look like something else, so their body is messed up or imperfect.

2. In the circumstances of showing girls pictures like these to show them how to get the "best body" is more ethically wrong in some cases. You can't tell someone how to look if the picture you're showing them is false. 

3. Small changes like erasing blemishes or highlights in the hair are okay, but full-on body replacement isn't. The changes you make should be small and insignificant, not as drastic as like in video #3. 

4. I think the difference between fashion photography and photojournalism is that fashion focuses on making any changes necessary in order to get the flawless body that everyone wants to have, while photojournalism focuses on getting the most genuine pictures possible and sharing them with people.

5. Fashion photography creates a false sense of reality and leads people in the wrong direction while photojournalism shows people that there can still be genuinely beautiful things in the world without using Photoshop. 

6. I think you showed us these three videos because you want us to know how we can't always trust what we see in pictures. It is very likely that it could have been heavily photo shopped. Photojournalism is about authentic photos, so we shouldn't rely too much on changing our photos.

7. I think none of these videos are about guys because it is not expected by them as much to have the perfect body. In the past, men were considered superior to women, so the women were the ones that always had to be what the men wanted them to be. This has probably carried over into the photography world where men still expect women to meet their vision of a perfect woman.

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