Fashion Photography

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)

Answer: Her eyes were made bigger, her nose smaller, lips bigger, and her skin clearer.

2. List the changes that were made to the model's body in the computer. (Look carefully)

Answer: Her limbs were made longer, her body skinnier and her skin whiter.

3. List the changes that were made to the model in the computer. (Look carefully)

Answer: She was made much skinnier and more conventionally attractive.

4. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like these in a photo? Why or why not?

Answer: No, it is never okay to manipulate someone's body to fit conventional beauty standards.

5. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?

Answer: It is wrong to photo shop someone's, hair face, or their body.

6. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?

Answer: It is perfectly fine to edit out a mistake or something that wasn't supposed to be in the photo.

7. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.

Answer: Fashion photography is centered around beauty, trends, and clothes. Photojournalism just focuses on photography in general.

8. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?

Answer: Most photography is staged, meaning it is not something that happened naturally. That, or it is photo shopped to look more interesting. This is okay in most cases, but when it comes to manipulating a person's body to make them more "attractive" it is wrong.

9. Why do you think I am showing you these three videos?

Answer: To help more people understand how incredibly wrong it is to photo shop human bodies as if they aren't already beautiful.

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

Answer: Because men control our society, and they are the ones who have set ridiculous and unrealistic standards for women. Guys are put under no pressure whatsoever to conform to society's rules, but girls are shamed for not doing so.