Week 7

I think photo editing can be both a good thing and a bad thing. There are times when it can be beneficial and other times it can be deceiving and/or hurtful. Photo editing is appropriate when it comes to touching up photos for a good reason like acne or a visible scar. I don’t find photo editing appropriate when others find it funny to crop people into ugly situations or mean photos. It’s also not appropriate and untruthful when magazines photo edit actresses and actors to look even better than they already do. Sometimes, they are editing, painted, and tightened so much They edit photos to make these people look absolutely flawless which does effect society in a negative way by giving us an unrealistic idea of what a man or woman is supposed to look like. Photo editing has improved so much to where we do actually believe what we see because the people all over the magazine covers have been altered and cropped their whole life by computers which sends the message of “perfection” to the rest of the world. Even when you have family portraits made by professional photographers they give you the option to do touch ups to your photos to give them a more enhanced look so they say. When we had pictures made for our church directory, they air brushed our faces so much you would think we had Botox injected into every line and wrinkle on our faces possible.

 

I chose this photo from http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1256856973/337/3015337.jpg because it clearly shows on the right what photo editing in photo shop can do to a photo of a person. They have basically performed plastic surgery over a computer. They gave this woman a completely different look and made her look 10 to 20 years younger and they even gave her a little bit of a haircut. If they were to publish this photo publically, then it would be a bold faced lie. The woman on the right is not even the same woman as the one on the left anymore. I chose this photo because it is a perfect example of just how untruthful photo shopping can be to the human eye. If we were to just see the photo on the left we would think that is how she originally looks, which is then once again not true. It goes along with blog perfectly because I claimed earlier in my post that photo editing can be deceiving and untruthful when magazines alter a person’s look just to make them look as if they are flawless and perfect.