Reality vs Photography: Photoshop
Wednesday, June 24th, 2015
Thanks to our extensive knowledge of the camera industry, we know a few cheats people use to get the best picture. In this day and age we’re bombarded with images of the perfect this and the perfect that. Glossy lifestyle magazines produce endless photos of stunning men and women showing off their best bits while motor head magazines show off show room cars in seductive lighting. Our Facebooks, Twitter and now the infamous Instagram are plastered with stunning, breathtaking and downright strange photos for our entertainment. But how many of these pictures are real and how many are simply feats of photography?
Photoshop
When it comes to digital alterations we can quite certainly point the finger at Photoshop and other computer systems dedicated to altering your photos image. Blemishes, wrinkle lines, age spots and prominent pores can all be erased and colour can be added with a simple click of a button. Where once photographs used to be our main source of evidence next to our own eye sight, thanks to modern day technology we don’t know if what we’re seeing is the real version of an image or an altered one. (more…)
