Make Ordinary...Extraordinary!
Photography has never had a strong link to reality. Photojournalism aside, photography has always been more about creating the image from the artist's perspective rather than a reality based image. Even when photographers argue that photo editing eliminates the truth in images, photo manipulation is also existent in the art of photography including everything from different angles, how to use different lights and settings, hiding imperfections and thus, they have the power to choose what is and isn't seen and how it is portrayed without the aid of a computer. We should appreciate rarely found talent that digital artists have to create such beautiful works of art. How is this any different than painters who have for centuries portrayed idealized versions of their subject inspired by imagination.
Journalism is just one area using a great deal of photo manipulation. How ever for photojournalists, I must say, photo editing...is Not your job. The biggest problem with photo editing in journalism is that they have the power to alter the opinions and views of the public who, most of the time, will have no idea that the photo had been manipulated in the first place.
It isn't that it's so horrible to retouch people, the problems come when you begin messing with the truth where it becomes noticeably distorted and the person doesn't even look real. Madonna appeared on the cover of OUT Magazine looking extremely photoshopped to the point where she looked almost alien.
Other celebrities admit to allowing photo editing in their pictures. “I disappoint people who meet me in person because I don’t look like me,” she says. “But the public is really hard on people in the industry and your image has to be perfect, and I openly admit that I have cellulite and I get that touched off.” - Tyra Banks
Photo Tampering Throughout History:
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