Fashion Photography

In the first video, the photo-editors did these things:

- Made the model's neck longer
- Made her lips larger
- Thinned her neck
- Enlarged her eyes
- Brought down her shoulders


In the second video, the photo editors did these things:

- Made the model's lips open and more pink
- Lightened the model's skin tone
- Enlarged her eyes
- Changed her eye color
- Cut skin from her ribs
- Made her legs longer
- Made her calves thinner
- Made her face thinner
- Lengthened her neck

In the third video, the photo-editors did these things:

- Made the model thinner all over
- Thinned her waistline
- Erased all lines
- Straightened her posture
- Made her breasts much smaller
- Gave her longer hair


1. No, it is not ethically acceptable to alter one's appearance like they did in these videos.
What the final photo of these videos is is not true. It is a lie, tricking viewers into seeing it as a real expectation. People need to stop taking photos and editing them. True photographers find beauty in the world around them, beauty that they leave untouched.

2. It would be more ethically wrong to do this kind of manipulation if these photos were on the front of magazines.

3. To me, the only changes that are ok are cropping and change of lighting. Nothing more. Changing things like actual features and weight are way over the line.

4. Fashion photography is different from photojournalism because in photojournalism, you capture what is really going on in life at the moment… You do not go back to the studio and edit the photographs afterwards to fit to the ideal appearance.

5. Photojournalism has more of a connection with real life because a photojournalist's job is to go out and take photos of what is going on today. In fashion photography, you try to sell a product, and in order to do so you need to make the viewers feel that they will look like the girl on the cover if they buy  it. This is unethical.

6. I think you are showing us these videos so that we recognize how different photojournalism is from different types of photography, and so that we see where we need to draw the line.

7. I think that none of these videos are about guys because women's bodies are often more objectified than men's (not saying that men aren't objectified) and that makes it easier to find what all women want to look like and make the model look that way.