Today, not only is images of people and our surroundings edited and enhanced, but also our food. Henry Peach says "I am far from saying that a photograph be an actual, literal and absolute fact…but it must represent truth."Many photographer don 't see what they do as photo manipulation, but rather as photo editing. However, most people find it as the same thing. Photo manipulation and photo editing are two different things; photo editing consists of small changes that does not change the picture at all mostly used to touch up images and crop it, such as removing red-eye or adjusting the brightness. Photo manipulation is completely changing the picture to make the picture more pleasing to the eye it involves altering and changing the image
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The bright colors, tasty ingredients, and the promise that it is "totally" fresh is satisfying to us because we accept this, we accept the misinterpretation, and it 's a lie. You would not find advertisement of a phone that looks better than what you actually buy, or a pair of jeans with bigger pockets than the one you actually buy, but for some reason the food industry is different and it doesn 't matter what happens to the image because we have accepted it when it 's applied to food, but we would never accept it if you saw advertisement of a phone was completely changed from how it look like in the way we buy it. Food manipulation confuses the buyers on what is real and what is fake, when you see a burger in an advertisement you 're attracted to eat it, but when you buy it it 's completely different from the advertisement. However, this does not stop us from eating it, because we already accepted it, we are already being blinded by the food industry on what is …show more content…
What good does manipulation in the image have? The truth is every image that is out there in the media been manipulated, aesthetically and politically, before it 's actually released. Levi Strauss says that "we should regard all images as being staged" because you will not find an image that has not been enhanced or manipulated. Stated in @davidc7. "Why Does Manipulation Matter? - David Campbell." David Campbell Why Does Manipulation Matter Comments. N.p., 24 Feb. 2015. Web. 10 Oct. 2016. To photographers in every image that they take is a construction, an interpretation, a claim, or a statement, so many photographers don 't see manipulation in terms of defending truth or securing objectivity, because nobody has ever been able to do that. We shouldn 't get upset if we see an advertisement being manipulated, we should get used to it, because the images in the food industry have always been manipulated and probably always will, so what good would it be if we just change it now? Yes photographer edit the image that they take, however half of us already know how the product looks like, because it would not be our first time actually buying the product, so why don 't we just accept the
The bright colors, tasty ingredients, and the promise that it is "totally" fresh is satisfying to us because we accept this, we accept the misinterpretation, and it 's a lie. You would not find advertisement of a phone that looks better than what you actually buy, or a pair of jeans with bigger pockets than the one you actually buy, but for some reason the food industry is different and it doesn 't matter what happens to the image because we have accepted it when it 's applied to food, but we would never accept it if you saw advertisement of a phone was completely changed from how it look like in the way we buy it. Food manipulation confuses the buyers on what is real and what is fake, when you see a burger in an advertisement you 're attracted to eat it, but when you buy it it 's completely different from the advertisement. However, this does not stop us from eating it, because we already accepted it, we are already being blinded by the food industry on what is …show more content…
What good does manipulation in the image have? The truth is every image that is out there in the media been manipulated, aesthetically and politically, before it 's actually released. Levi Strauss says that "we should regard all images as being staged" because you will not find an image that has not been enhanced or manipulated. Stated in @davidc7. "Why Does Manipulation Matter? - David Campbell." David Campbell Why Does Manipulation Matter Comments. N.p., 24 Feb. 2015. Web. 10 Oct. 2016. To photographers in every image that they take is a construction, an interpretation, a claim, or a statement, so many photographers don 't see manipulation in terms of defending truth or securing objectivity, because nobody has ever been able to do that. We shouldn 't get upset if we see an advertisement being manipulated, we should get used to it, because the images in the food industry have always been manipulated and probably always will, so what good would it be if we just change it now? Yes photographer edit the image that they take, however half of us already know how the product looks like, because it would not be our first time actually buying the product, so why don 't we just accept the