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Photoshop - not the enemy of mankind

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It was with great interest that I viewed a recent video posted by Buzzfeed in which four women reacted to being given a professional photoshoot, and extreme makeover via Photoshop. Their unanimous reaction was that they preferred the original "before" photographs, straight out of the camera, showing them as they'd appear in the mirror. My immediate reaction was "Great, more power to them"; after all, a woman who is confident in herself is far more attractive than one who is self-conscious, insecure and obsessed about how she appears to other people.

Read more of Rephocus Imaging's latest blog post here: www.rephocusimaging.com/photos…
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Photo editing - why do we do it?

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There are a number of reasons for which an individual may choose to use Photoshop or [insert favoured photo editing software here] to edit or manipulate the photos from their camera, and its use is often subject to fierce debate and controversy.

National Geographic magazine have made their position on Photoshop clear, stating "We want to see the world through your eyes, not through photo editing tools... If you have digitally added or removed anything, please don't submit the shot" in their submission guidelines.

There have been numerous instances of prestigious photography competition winners seeing their pride turn to shame after being disqualified for use of Photoshop.

And finally, there have also been several instances of  'shopped images gaining widespread notoriety, and in some shocking cases, fraudulently presented as documentary evidence to illustrate news stories. Such cases include the "Reutersgate" photo editing scandal, the 2003 publishing of a manipulated photo of a scene in Basra which resulted in the sacking of photographer Brian Walksi, and more recently, Anhui province officials' laughable attempt to curry favour with their constituents with a disastrously bad Photoshopped image.

This phenomenon is nothing new - photo fakery predates image-editing software by some 130 years.

Read the full article on Rephocus Imaging.com



Many thanks to :iconfallisphoto: for the assistance and contribution to this article


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So I now have a website...

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First of all, a most gracious thank you to everyone I have had the pleasure of interacting with in the short while since joining DeviantArt. Your positive comments and feedback have been gratefully received and taken on board for my future endeavours. 

Speaking of future endeavours, one of them is going to be my new website, www.rephocusimaging.com - I've had the concept, the ideas and even the name in my head for a long time, but haven't been able to dedicate the time to realising it until, well, today... My renewed motivation was due to the feedback I've had from my artwork on here and the repeated nudging, cajoling and berating from various friends and family members, and... I finally got it properly started. 

As it says on the homepage, it's still under construction, and likely to be for a few weeks yet, but I've got a clear plan set out of what I'm hoping to achieve with it, and a timescale as to when I'm going to have this happen within. Watch this space: www.rephocusimaging.com

So once more with feeling, thank you all very much for the kind words and advice - much appreciated.
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