have a girl ten or over, or are the husband of a girl, you should watch this video.
Many of you know that I've started a photography business lately, and through that I've screened a lot of picture manipulation software, like Photoshop, Lightroom, etc... The things a person can do to a digital image are endless. I read a great photography book lately by a guy who did-and was now past- the Photoshop thing and was back to using film because he was disgusted at how fake imaging had become. The art, he felt, was lost. I use film and digital cameras. I manipulate pictures. I turn color into black and white. I fade eye wrinkles in portraits. I deepen the blues of the sky, and move shadows to more convenient places by manipulating exposure. But this video, and the 5 minute one by Diet.com that is after it on Youtube, reminded me how dangerous Photoshop can be to our girls. To me. To my daughter.
Please know that any model you see on the cover of a magazine has been seriously Photoshopped. You can't look like that no matter how hard you try. They pay people to sit all day and push buttons to make teeth whiter, eyes bluer, skin tighter, lips fuller, thighs slimmer and necks longer. Yes, these buttons are there; I've experimented with them. Photographers-be responsible. There's little girls out there who aren't getting the message at home that God made them beautiful, in His image, and that inner beauty is eternal. They're turning to our images for the definition of beauty, so let's at least give them something realistic to look at.
3 comments:
LOVE this, Tiffany! If all men understood this behind the scenes transformation, maybe the bar scene wouldn't be such a meat market. I wonder if famous men hire the same amount of photoshop people or if there is a typical double standard there.
So very true, Tiffany. It is up to us to teach our girls AND our boys that we are each perfection just as we are.
Thanks for the reminder, friend.
Photoshop.,,,, hate it. I have been having this conversation with Emily, my princess, lately and point out the grocery store mags that show the beauties of hollywood and how they look on the street without all the make-up and lighting. She skipped breakfast the other day and when I asked her why she told me because some brat at school told her she wasn't pretty because she is fat. It used to be they were safe until they got in middle school. She is only 8, now it is in the third grade. I will make sure she see's this.
dave
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