Comments for Barbara Asboth Photography https://barbasboth.com Banbury & Cotswolds Photographer Fri, 15 Sep 2023 19:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Comment on FUJIFILM Presents… #UNFILTERED – A portrait project exploring the differences between selfies, filters and reality by MG https://barbasboth.com/fujifilm-presents-unfiltered-a-portrait-project-exploring-the-differences-between-selfies-filters-and-reality#comment-120 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:55:36 +0000 https://barbasboth.com/?p=1004#comment-120 In reply to Yuka.

Hi Yuka! Thank you for your insightful comment, really enjoyed reading your thoughts about the project! Yes, Ayumi is Japanese, and she did mention light skin I think when we were chatting casually after the shoot. You make a valid point about possibly using older selfies of each woman to avoid them subconsciously doing the selfies differently than they normally would, that would actually be an interesting thing to try. I suppose the one reason not to do that is that I wanted the background of both the selfie and the studio portrait to be the same, otherwise the difference in background may be distracting from the actual faces of the subjects. But I will have a think about this for the next phase! Thank you again! 🙂

]]> Comment on FUJIFILM Presents… #UNFILTERED – A portrait project exploring the differences between selfies, filters and reality by Yuka https://barbasboth.com/fujifilm-presents-unfiltered-a-portrait-project-exploring-the-differences-between-selfies-filters-and-reality#comment-119 Sun, 05 Feb 2023 19:31:14 +0000 https://barbasboth.com/?p=1004#comment-119 What an awesome project, kudos to you. Though I knew selfies often are edited extensively, I had no idea the phone camera itself distorted the proportion of the image too…the more you know! I also found it interesting that there’s pattern to how participants edited themselves based on their cultural background and/or their perceived flaws. For example, I am Japanese just like Ayumi (presumably,) and I found her edits making herself look paler very much relatable because white, porcelain skin is a heavily emphasized as a beauty standard in Japan. Women who are more overweight than our unrealistic body image makes themselves look slimer, those with lighter eyes makes the color more vibrant, most puts on their biggest smile, except ones who look more “alternative” in their presentation, etc. etc. It can be hard to see just how big the impact society has on how we present ourselves until it’s presented side by side.

The only thing I think could’ve made the project better would be if the selfies used for comparison was taken from what they have posted online in the recent past. There are possibilities of the participants not making themselves look as “pretty” as they usually would for the selfies used in the article for fear of looking foolish when it looks too dramatically different from your photos — I admittedly think I might be inclined to do this if I was participating.

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