Editing and photo manipluation
The idea and concept of documentary photography is the capturing of a real life moment, that represents the time, subject, place, things/people involved etc. If the photos are later edited in production it doesn't give a fully truthful account as it can sometimes be a form of manipulating a photo so it is precived by its auidence as something it's not. This happens commonley in fashion, celebrity, advertsing and stars photos. As modern society espcially in the media (where photography corsses over with) use images as form of a selling point or repsentation of someone/thing. So the use of editing can have strong toll on it auidences, espcially younger ones such as teens who may not be aware of the lenthgs editing will be used to potray something as its not.
This can range from professional comisioned images to personal one on the photo sharing Social Media app, Instagram.
Example A) is proof that even the 'worlds most perfect man' even needs a bit of photoshopping known and again. The shoot was for a large magazine publication, but even their editors missed the missing part of Adam Levines torso. Which creating more questioning about the photo's real reprentations of the Maroon 5 front man. This in an example of professional modifcation/editing to photos.
Example B) When Beyonce (Queen B) wasn't so 'flawless'. Beyonce has run into a few issues previously with her social media account's posts on Twitter. As she was meant to be documenting her holiday late last year, to share with the world and her fans, She had made the easy mistake of sucumming to pressure and manipulating her own photo to eppar to have a thigh gay. But the stair gave her trick away, as it was at a slight odd angle. This makes the photo not come under documentary as it has been edited and isnt a real repsentation of a moment.
I felt bad on Beyonce to be using her as an example again, but anyway, I'm sure she wouldn't mind. I took this un-photoshoped image of her and editied in the online photo editorial website "PicMonkey'.
This was the final outcome after airbrushing, cropping, smoothing, blemish removing, lip enlargment, eye brightening, cloning of skin over the other, removing of wrinkles, sliming of neck and removel of background. But clumbsy me forgot to save the orginal image, but luckily i print screened it just incase, so this is why the quality is extremley low in the final image. I'm using this as an example of me using a photo editing resource and that I can use it, even if it's not the best in the world. I won't be using any form of photo manipulation in my work as it then is not a true representation, making it not a form of a document of a time.
Ohana
