Here's a terrific resource to expand on yesterday's lecture discussion of manipulation of images. Check it out.
But a student raised a great discussion topic via IM. Manipulation is supposedly verboten in news. What about strat comm? Swimsuit models don't really look like they appear to in ads. They've been retouched to look better. Is this OK? Do you think the average consumer understands this? Should that matter? What are the social implications of making people look better than they actually do? What are the gender implications.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Photo manipulation
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It's amazing how obviously doctored some of the photos are and how unfortunate it is to take someone already fit and beautiful, like Faith Hill, and airbrush them into oblivion. For most of the photos on that site it's just not necessary. In many of the pictures, such as the picture of the city with extra smoke added in, it does not add anything to the picture, rather it makes it look quite fake unconvincing. My little brother could copy and paste smoke like that using Kid Pix software.
more about photo manipulation and composites in magazines
http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-06-16-covers_x.htm
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