PhotoLedger: Flying by Sachigusa Yasuda

Sachigusa Yasuda, an artist from Tokyo, features a desolate perspective on being an elevated ground. 

She takes us to the view of looking down the earth from a skyscraper through her digital photography. And it was excellent.

The experience of her Flying photos was as if you were on the edge of a building’s window, your eyes coordinating with your mind in magnifying the distance to the ground. Some people feel nauseated by the photo, fearing the heights.

What do you feel about this? I’m kept between praising human’s brilliance of industrial design and longing for the natural view we should be seeing but obstructed by these buildings.

Deceitful Digital Enhancements

It’s crazy how PhotoShop can alter a person’s appearance.

Photo from sideshowsito.com

Photoshop is digital’s gift of enhancement. Photos are now easier to save. Got a bad lighting then adjust brightness. Restore your grandma’s pictures and prolong the memory. Even pose with Egypt’s pyramids, Africa’s cats or Palau’s sea of jellyfish without crossing any border. All possible, believable, thanks to Adobe.

It’s an aide to enticing posters, invitations and all. Remember seeing a puffy burger from the menu, but the actual one you’ve got was half its size? The photoshopped burger made you buy it, but really deceptive. It served most, if not all businesses and individuals too.

It’s a fun and fulfilling software to peruse. It’s magical how pimples disappear within seconds, graying hair re-colored, and fat trimmed. A few of that enhancements are acceptable, but to render you to look a different person isn’t neat. It’s not you anymore.

What’s the most editing you did in a photo?