Monday, November 22, 2010

Ethics in fashion photography:)

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)

     They made her lips bigger, made her neck longer, smoothed the flyaways of her hair, made her neck skinner, moved her lips down, made her eyes farther apart and bigger, fixed her cheek bones and made her lips bigger.

2. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo? Why or why not?
    It is most certainly not. They changed so much in photoshop, it was like making a whole other person. People base their definition of beauty on ads like that and they are pretty much basing these views on people who don't exist. No one is perfect like the girl in the picture.

3. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?
   It think its always wrong, there's no "more wrong" You should just never do it. Everyone is beautiful in their own way

4. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?
    none of them are okay.

5. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.

   Fashion photography is an advertisement tool, "Hey look what clothes i made!" "Hey, look at this new makeup!" "You could look like this if you wear this" While photojournalism is like a story, without words. A visual story:)

6. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?

   Photojournalism is reality. It shows whats going on in the world rather than telling about it. It always should be true, untouched by editing.
Fashion Photography is more of a false reality, where everything and everyone is "beautiful"  Rarely true, and edited to make things perfect.

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