What I am trying to achieve is to show people how to cook healthy, easy meals that will help them finish off what they've been doing in the gym and build the body they want. Now, a lot of people who would offer a "get big quick" scheme would show a very muscular individual on the front cover. However these have been taken in a photo shoot scenario and have probably been edited. Whether this is to make the muscles look bigger, or increase the brightness to make them look shiny and even more defined. This makes people believe what they are reading is true and can persuade them to buy a certain product because of this editing. I have therefore used an interview image of my bodybuilder on the front cover. This is to ensure it was not taken place in photo-shoot environment which would show a false representation of the bodybuilder. To me this takes away the dedication and hard work that is involved in the process of bodybuilding. Is is also causes massive financials gains for these fitness and supplement companies, therefore photo manipulation can be very misleading, so I have tried not to do this.
Making people look better than they do can also make people feel inadequate with themselves enough to buy this supposed quick fix supplement or work-out and this is because people think it'll be an easy way out, there is no easy way to personal growth, it takes dedication and time.
Issues with photo manipulation expand beyond the fitness industry however. It is also possible for the media to manipulate images, this is dangerous as the media have millions of people that follow their content. Can you believe everything you see in the papers?
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