Fashion Photography

First Video:

They made the models neck longer, they also made her eyes bigger, and made her lips larger. They also made her head a little larger as well and they changed her eye colour, they changed it from a hazel brown to a blue, and they moved here eyes down closer to her nose.

Second Video:

They made her neck, legs, and torso longer, they also made her have a smaller stomach, thighs, feet, and butt. They also made her skin lighter. The model looks like an entirely different person.


Third Video:

She started out a little bigger, they made her boobs bigger, they cut off a lot of her middle section, and they made her but a lot smaller, and made her thighs smaller. They also made her head smaller to be in proportion with her body and they made her hair longer. They cut off a lot of her weight, basically all of it.

Following Questions:

4. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like these in a photo? Why or why not?
Is it ethically acceptable, yes meaning we do it, but really it's not, it's wrong. It's wrong because we change a person entirely to the point where you don't even recognize them, and it sets an exception of perfection that can never be, it makes others feel bad about their bodies. Yet we do it because "it helps to sell a product" or just because it makes them look better.

5. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?Yes, if you're trying to sell a product and you have a "perfect" person using it that's supposed to sell it better ok that sort of makes sense every one wants to be perfect so if a "perfect" person uses it they should but if you're just taking photo of a real event happening and there happens to be a larger person in it so you turn them into the "perfect" person it takes away from the realistic factor of the photo. It changes the picture entirely.

6. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?If you need to make some one's facial features a little more noticeable, or the pose they're in gives them an unflattering definition and you just get rid of it, or the picture is a little dark and it's hard to see them and you make it a little lighter that's fine, but when we start going and changing the persons shape, size, eye color, figure, basically what makes them who they are it becomes rude and it makes this unrealistic expectation that we can change how we look and who we are. Change into perfection.

7. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.With fashion photography they're trying to show off clothes, or a design. But with photojournalism we're trying to show ethereal world and real events. In fashion photography they can make the person look different because it can help the clothes look better and what not, but with photojournalism we're trying to show the truth so we can't manipulate a picture because that changes the picture.

8. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?When people use photoshop in fashion they have to make sure that there's still some reality to it, otherwise it will looked photoshopped, but if we use photoshop in photojournalism it takes away from the reality of the picture. In fashion it's almost expected to use photoshop, but in photojournalism it's considered wrong because we're not trying to give the perfect expectation of the world, we're trying to show the truth.

9. Why do you think I am showing you these three videos?To show us how people use it and how it changes the reality and with our portraits coming up you want us to capture a moment that is real and that isn't fake or manipulated.

10. Why are none of these videos about guys???

Because women get body shamed more than men do and women are more sensitive and more vulnerable. And I think this bothers women more then it does men.