Fashion photography

In fashion photography an image gets manipulated a lot and it’s not only image that gets manipulated with, they also select perfect model for that photo-shoot. Images are really easy to change and that is why you can never trust what you see in a fashion magazine. They always change the picture before they use it for their magazine.

There are more than one way to manipulate the picture and one of them is known as digital manipulation/airbrushing. This is the most common manipulation for fashion magazines. They always use some computer programme (for example photoshop) to change the models look and to make her look perfect. They make sure that all the spots that model have are covered with make up so you can’t see then and if makeup doesn’t help, they use editing programme to cover it. This is not really good for the readers because if they make their model look perfect even knowing that she is not, the reader is going to think that they should look like that because that is how perfect people look like and they would like to be same as they are. Also readers may thing that they need to change themselves because they are not beautiful or they don’t have right size and this change might lead to eating disorder or something similar. If you look at the models in fashion magazines and how their skin is clear and looks just perfect, it is all made by using makeup and some editing software. Some of those pictures has face lifted a little bit higher to make sure that the neck looks taller and shows off face and they will change face form as well and they also may change the look of your hair by making it look bigger and more healthy.

Another way how they manipulate with pictures is that they make sure that they choose right model for their photoshoot. For example if they want to advertise their newest dress or something like that, they will choose model with right figure to do that. They will make sure that the dress look just perfect on that model and then they will make it more perfect by editing it.

Overall, you can’t really trust fashion magazines and someone you might want to look like might be just someone that has been photoshoped to look perfect in which case that would mean that you are trying to be someone that doesn’t even exist. If you look up some of the models from magazines without makeup, they will look like a completely different person.

Examples of some of the pictures that has been manipulated;

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As you can see pictures are really easy to manipulate with. You can change everything about a picture. You can change your hair colour, eye colour, clothes and a lot more. You also can change how person is standing or how tall or short they are, you can change their size, in fact, you can change every single detail about pictures. So are pictures telling true? No. They get changed too much and in fashion photography they will get changed before they will be used. This is why all the models in pictures look just perfect. It’s because they change some details about the model in Photoshop to make her look perfect. If you look in internet at some pictures, there is a big chance that they have been edited before they got put up on internet. Every single fashion magazine has edited pictures to make them look more perfect.