Visual Literacy

For the Outside magazine someone from the Outside magazine company created the image. I couldn't read everything on the magazine cover because most of it wasn't legible. Outside magazine was the source.
The man on the cover looks a little older. They probably photo edited the gray out of his hair, and enhanced his skin tone. I feel like the main focus was on his face. On the front cover it mentions age, so I am guessing that is why the main focus was on his face. I feel like the gray in his hair and some of his wrinkles are probably missing, seeing there aren't many. The photo doesn't really effect my emotions and how I am feeling. I feel like for the most part this image does appear truthful seeing they didn't edit all of the wrinkles out of his face, still making it look like he is his age.

For the magazine cover with Britney Spears, someone in Japan must have created the cover seeing I can't read it. The source is also someone in Japan. Britney's skin tone was defiantly changed. No superstar is that pale in the United States. In Japan they like the look of pale skin so I am guessing that is why they lightened it. The color and lighting must have been altered a bit to help make her skin tone pasty, and look good with the rest of the light colored images and pictures on the cover. Britney's face appears largest in the picture seeing she is the main focus in the magazine. The rest of Britney's body is missing in the picture. i feel as if they probably altered the shape of her body and things on her face. This image does not effect my emotions at all seeing they edited her a lot to make her look like that, and I don't even think that is a good picture of her. This image does not seem very truthful to me. I feel like a lot of it has been edited.

For the magazine cover of Zac Efron, a photographer from GO magazine must have taken it. The source is GO magazine. I am guessing they probably edited Zacs skin tone to make him look tanner. The angle and lighting of this picture make his body look small, and his head look big. Zacs head looks the largest in this picture. My interpretation of this picture is either he has a huge head, or they wanted to make sure everyone knew he was on the cover, because it is definently eye catching. It looks like half of Zacs body weight is missing. He looks way skinnier than usual. When I look at this photo, I laugh. That is how it effects my emotions. No ones head is that big with a body that small. This image does not appear truthful to me seeing his proportions are way off.

After viewing these photos I feel as if it is important that people know all magazine covers are edited, and no one in real life really does look like that. If someone wasn't aware that these photos have been edited, bad things could happen. A lot of eating disorders could end up happening when wanting to be as thin as some of these ladies on the covers. At photo shoots lighting is always being changed. Computer editors are always changing photos weather it is skin tone, removing parts of the body, or even removing baby bumps. This is completely wrong. They make these people out to look a lot different than they really do, sometimes making them look like not even the person they are. This isn't fair to the people being photographed or the people looking at and buying the magazine.