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so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera.” Daniel J. Boorstin once stated (Quoteland). What is a photographer? A photographer is someone who takes pictures, typically on a camera, to record an event or capture a particular moment as a profession (Photographer). Because images are there when people are absent, photography is a way of keeping…

retouched by photoshop similar photographic enhancements? Photoshop is an Adobe software used to edit images.. The use of photoshop to make people look perfect is wrong. When people look at these magazines with photoshopped images they think that this is what they're supposed to look like. However, photoshop itself is not a bad thing. As Ms. Summers says in Don’t let Photoshop Make You Feel Bad “Altering images has been a standard practice for centuries. Photoshop allows photographers to create…

In my everyday life, I’m bombarded by television, movies, commercials, billboards and especially magazines with images that are fake. With the creation of programs like Photoshop, it is now easier than ever before to alter photographs. Go to any grocery store and the woman peering out from the pages of each and every magazine, appear with flawless features, only made…

sharing their pictures or comments. But how much “likes” or “sharing” a picture can help? CRS (Crisis Relief Singapore) launched a campaign called “linking isn’t helping,” this campaign provides powerful images and messages. The picture for this rhetorical analysis consist in a black and white image, where the audience can observe a young girl struggling in the middle of a flood, surrounded by a numerous amount of thumbs up. Combining a sad scenario with a positive and overused expression, CRS…

exist. Any unwanted flaw can vanish with the click of a button. But Whilst Photoshop is often seen to be used simple as a way to edit minute details within images, it…

cannot create nor destroy the images people see; mirrors are merely instruments for, what is most often, vanity. However in art, mirrors are used to exhibit much more than just a reflection: as is the case in both Un bar aux Folies Bergère by Éduoard Manet and Picture for Women by Jeff Wall . The mirrors used in both of these works of art mediate the scenes and the characters within them, revealing much more than just a reflection. The mirror takes a seemingly simple image and creates a much…

For my creolization project I wanted to do images from back home so I decided to do a couple images that I had took when i was back at home in Hawaii. I will be going 3 images, for each image I will be talking about how I think it reflects an element or theme that Ivor Miller went over in his graffiti article and how it reflects to one of the Creative Spirit goals for class.What I got out of Miller’s article is that creolization is the concept of being able to bring two different aspects…

women photographers and scientist alike. This process, of documenting ferns, allowed people to understand what they looked like, size and scale, giving proof to science and the botanist community on their existence and important documentary need. Her images allowed for women, in her time, to see that there was more to photography then just a portrait shot - also giving women a real stand alone place in a field, science and photography,…

he heavily photoshopped his images. “Should images in Magazines that have been manipulated be required to have a label?” Yes, altered images published in any sort of media in any way or form should be required to have a label. Many people, especially girls, can be discouraged in seeing false body standards, and people can get anorexia, causing exceedingly low body weight, which is life threatening. Thanks to photoshop, anybody has access to be able to alter their images. People feel bad because…

Richard Learoyd was born in England in 1966 and he is currently living and working in London. He’s method is camera Obscura. He creates life size images in he’s own built camera and makes unique images. Flamingo 3 is a really beautiful photograph, with a soft and strong view. The colors are so bright. The concept of the image, from my point of view, a flamingo caught from freedom. To be honest, at the beginning I didn’t see that the flamingo was dead, and until this day, I still choose…