The photo that I manipulated is a photo that I took 3 years ago of an arrangement of flowers I placed in a beer bottle. The original photo is bright and full of color. There is a lot going on and when you look at the photo for the first time, it can seem too much for the eye. The photo is not something you can look at for a long period of time, but rather a quick glace and on to the next photo.
What I did to manipulate the photo was first change it into black and white. Then using photoshop I made the only colour in the photo be the flowers. I did this because I wanted the center of the photo to be the flowers. The colors are so vibrant and noticeable with a black and white background.
With the technology that we have today, photos can be manipulated in any way possible. From removing and placing objects in a photo to be apart of the picture. Photo manipulation is used a lot on the human body. In magazines, billboards, movies and television, the technology we have today can make a person look as they wish. Anything from hair color, skin color, height, and size can be altered to ones preference.
The manipulation of photos can be seen as being ethically wrong. In a sense it can be because when people manipulate images for ads and magazines to make a model seem "perfect" sends out the wrong image to the public. The public is being lied to with these photos and it impacts them so much that they feel that they need to look exactly as the “perfect” model. These created so many self-esteem issues and many problems for our society. However when manipulating photos for the sake of art, it is not wrong at all. I think that we should use the available technology that we have to better advance in the world of art, not to manipulate body images that give our society low self-esteem.
No comments:
Post a Comment