Monday, March 19, 2012

The Truth Behind Photoshop

Photography Post #6
Alysha Reed

The media takes an already beautiful woman and preps her for hours making her more “beautiful”.  Not only does the media cake make-up on the young woman’s face, but every aspect of the woman’s appearance is altered in some way-shape-or-form from the initial frame.  In the end you can see that all the alterations were not sufficient enough.  Her neck needs to be elongated, her eye bones tweaked, and her hair thickened in-order for her picture to finally appear on the billboard.  The worlds image of beauty has been so skewed.  Young girls see these photos and the women in them as idols.  In reality these idols on the billboards and in the magazines do not even exist as they appear to exist.  With the technology behind the photography, a picture may speak a thousand words but it is hard to know if those thousand words are all lies.

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