Photo Manipulation and Ethics
A. What I have gathered from reading this blog is that it's very easy to manipulate and photoshop photos. That ability causes problems around whether a picture is real or not. Many photos for magazines or modeling agencies are altered to make the person look better, but sometimes the original pictures are leaked, like Kim Kardashian.
B. Newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today have certain limits in regards to photoshopping their photos. Some restrictions might be to not alter the colors in any photos. Other magazines and newspapers, however, do not have any limits in that area, so it's very hard to tell if what you are looking at is real or not.
C. I don't think that major magazines and news papers and modeling agencies etc. should manipulate their photos like they do. The readers of the magazines or newspapers tend to want to look like the people featured on the covers, and if they are heavily photoshopped, people are wanting to look like someone that doesn't even exist. I think the only acceptation for photoshop would be if you're fixing the lighting or the shadows in pictures that don't feature people.
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This photo of Kim Kardashian is the most unethical of the pictures on the blog in my opinion. The picture on the left is the original, and the photo on the right is the one that was put on the cover of a magazine. You can obviously see just how much photoshop was used to make the picture look like it does. For example, the top part of her left leg was smoothed out and so was the outside of her right leg. Her arm was made to look skinnier and also her stomach was altered. I think that all of that work is not necessary because the original picture is just as good, if not better than the photoshopped one.
B. Newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today have certain limits in regards to photoshopping their photos. Some restrictions might be to not alter the colors in any photos. Other magazines and newspapers, however, do not have any limits in that area, so it's very hard to tell if what you are looking at is real or not.
C. I don't think that major magazines and news papers and modeling agencies etc. should manipulate their photos like they do. The readers of the magazines or newspapers tend to want to look like the people featured on the covers, and if they are heavily photoshopped, people are wanting to look like someone that doesn't even exist. I think the only acceptation for photoshop would be if you're fixing the lighting or the shadows in pictures that don't feature people.
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This Photoshop is the most ethical in my opinion. This is because nothing about the people in the two photos were altered, however, the top photo is a fake picture because it consists of two different ones put together, so in that sense it is not ethical.
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