Ethics in fashion photography

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)

• Made her lips fuller.
• Lifted her neck up
• Made her hair a bit longer, more full, and moved it around.
• Made her eyes bigger
• Slimmed her face some, and bronzed her cheeks.

2. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo? Why or why not? 

No it is not, I believe a person is beautiful no matter what. I can understand if she mas a few blemishes here and there to fix those or make them go away, but to resize and arrange a person face to make them look better or prettier is wrong. Everyone is beautiful in they're own way, plus if thats what the media feels is the appropriate way to look its not because when a girl gets ready in the morning they don't have the material to change they're appearance like that.

3. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?

Maybe, if the changed everything about a model, like hair eyes, face, neck, body, color ect.
4. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?

Okay-blemish removing, make up fixing, or applying make up to a person, teeth whitening ect. Wrong-making them look skinnier, or changing any part of they're body that is permanently them, like eyes, nose, face, head shape ect.

5. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.

Photojournalism, you capture a moment, a REAL moment nothing is being fixed edited out or made to look better. Fashion photography is changing a person appearance to enhance them, to sell a product or make the media feel like this is how 'beauty' looks.

6. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each? 

 The relationship between photography of fashion isn't real. Its all fake. The relationship between photojournalism, is like I said to capture a real moment. Fashion photography, will do whatever they want because all they have on their mind is sell sell sell and what more they can do to catch a persons eye, as for photojournalism is to tell facts, what you see is what you get.