Fashion Photography -12/10/14-

In the first video the photo-editors enlarged her eyes, made her lips plumper, made her neck thinner and longer, and defined her cheekbones more.

 

In the second video they changed her skin and lip tone, enlarged her eyes, made her legs longer, thinned her calves, thinned her face, lengthened her neck, and made waist line smaller.

 

In the third video they slimmed her entire body, defined muscle, made her head smaller, gave her longer hair, straightened her posture, and thinned her waistline.

 

 

 

 

 

It is not ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like these. It gives viewer a false sense of what they are looking at and is false advertising, in my opinion.

 

I think that the amount of editing you do can change how ethical it is but it is all pretty bad.  Telling viewers that change was made and only changing a small amount you are being more ethical than a full out non-recognizable new person.

 

I don't think that any of it is ok but some changes that aren't as bad might include eye color change or hair change. Some worse ones are waist line slimming and lengthening necks and legs.

Fashion photography's focus is to sell a product while photo journalism is trying to capture the world around us and tell a story.

Photo journalism is going out and telling a story, spreading a true message about something. Fashion photography is a means to sell a product and is editing so much that the photo no longer holds and truth.

I think you are showing us these so that we realize how far some people go and we see the difference in fashion photography and photo journalism. We see why we can't edit a whole lot, it makes the message of the photos untrue. 

 

I think that there are not men in these because men's bodies aren't as objectified as women's.