Ethics & Fashion Photography

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face with Photoshop in the computer.  Her neck was lengthened, her eyes were moved down, her eyes were enlarged, her hair got moved around, her jaw was made smaller, her shoulders were made narrower.

2. List the changes that were made to the model's body with Photoshop in the computer.  The wrinkles got edited out of her face, her neck was lengthened, her skin was lightened, her stomach was made smaller, her legs were lengthened, her nose was made smaller, her eyes were made bigger, her arms were lengthened, her butt was made smaller, her calves were made narrower, there was a gap made between her lips, her pupils were made smaller, her arms were lengthened.

3. List the changes that were made to the model with Photoshop in the computer. Her hips were enlarged,  her stomach was made larger, her skin was discolored/patchy, her arms were made bigger, her legs were larger, her nose was larger, her face was more square, they added cheese coloring, added pepperoni,  edited out her face, filled in holes that showed the background, the woman was turned into a pizza.


4. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like these in a photo? Why or why not? It is not acceptable because it is misleading and perpetuates society's toxic body standards. They are actually not real people, and can lead to people hurting themselves to look like imaginary people. The photoshopped person was actually not proportional, specifically with the neck, face and arms/legs.

5. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation? I think that it would be more ethically wrong if the person was whitewashed, or a heavy person was made so skinny you wouldn't recognize them. I think that if a person was intended to be viewed by younger audiences and was photoshopped to have an unrealistic body, that would be not okay either. Pushing toxic body images on young children never ends in a good way.

6. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't? I think that people shouldn't be photoshopped to different things, it alters the person's natural state of being. I think that superficial things would be okay (wrinkles, acne), but a lot of the edits that were made caused the person to be not proportional and unnatural.

7. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism. Most fashion photography is trying to sell a product. Whether that's the actual clothes, makeup or something else. The main part of fashion photography is to be the standard of beauty society holds over women. Photojournalism is used to document events and people.

8. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each? Photojournalism shows what is actually realistic and is a process that documents people and how they live. It does not alter reality, it shows what is realistic. This is ethical because it shows what is real. Fashion photography alters reality, making women not proportional. This is unethical because it is unrealistic.

9. Why do you think I am showing you these three videos? I think that you are showing these videos to us to show us what is and isn't fake about the photography world. Also, to show us that editing people past an extent is misleading and disgusting, this isn't a process that you see everyday.

10. Why are none of these videos about guys??? None of these videos are about guys because society has a stronger body standards towards women. That has been built up over thousands of years, and is still being perpetuated.