l a a r i s s s s a a ' s media arts blog.: re: photo manipulation on hiatus in the media
Feb
09
Larissa

The controversy with images in the media being photo shopped has been around for quite a while now. My personal opinion on this topic is that photo shopped images gone bad are just have some slight slips which gave people proof that there is a lot of photo-manipulation going on in the media today. I think that seeing these mistakes that the media is committing are shocking. You just can't believe, that what you think beauty is (you know models in magazines) can be distorted to the point that beauty isn't real, just imagination. Let's take a look at some photo-manipulations that are just wrong.


Everyone in Toronto at least knows the fun guide, right? The book that almost all families use to decided where to send their kids for swimming, skating, summer camps, etc. Well did you know that the front page is a photo-shopped image? That is just way creepy. A picture that looks like a perfect family is truly not. Not that this is manipulating the way we imagine beauty but still that is just creepy in my eyes. The reason behind this is that Toronto wanted to appear more diverse to all its citizens.

Now let’s take a really look at celebrities. See how Photoshop changes the way a person really looks like.


Above, is a picture of the queen of pop, Miss Britney Spears. Clearly she has aged since her claim to fame song "One More Time" back in the late 90s, early 2000s. I guess with a little touch up here and a little editing here, you could barely see the fact that she is almost 30 years old and has given birth to a child. It's almost as if she has gotten her youthfulness back. But if you see the difference then you can see how our image of beauty has been changed over the years.



What about for the girls out there, obviously we gush about the hottest guys in the magazines but clearly they don't look like that in real life. If you saw the picture on the right in a magazine a girl would go crazy over his hotness and his gorgeous blue eyes but if you saw the picture on the left then you would think, “ehh, just another guy.” It has no appeal, thus not grabbing your attention. That is the point of advertisements and the use of Photoshop is to draw the attention of the reader or viewer.


But don’t worry there is still some natural beauty left in this world. Here are some photos of celebrities that took it all of (their makeup) for the cameras. This was for “People’s most beautiful 2008”. Jessica Biel and Eva Longoria are 3 or of many famous women that stripped of all their makeup to show their inner beauty, this is how they truly look like and that is something to appriencate. As you look at these images you see how natural beauty is simple, natural, and beautiful. I bet you, you stared at these images for a while. It’s refreshing to see different images than the Photo shopped images we see in the media today. The images we see today also change the way we look at men and women of opposite sex. When we see everyday people, we begin to compare them to the touched up picture in the media which lead to a variety of issues such as depression, dissatisfaction and many more. But seeing picture like this is touching, at least I respect pictures like this. Beauty untouched is true beauty.




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