Swedish fashion girl mocked after clumsy photo editing

Friday 21 December 2018, 08:16 by Michelle Peeters | 7,483 views | 5 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

I took one photo and didn't think it was very nice ... so I put a different background behind it. And when I posted it on Instagram, nobody noticed, so I thought it was fine.

Johanna floating above the road, without a shadow
The Swedish fashion influencer Johanna Olsson(28) is under fire because a large number of fashion photos on her Instagram account appear to be fake. The blonde visited Paris a few months ago on an all-expenses-paid trip.

Photos from her trip led to more than just a few raised eyebrows. That is because it was obvious, even to a casual observer, that the photos were nothing more than the result of somewhat clumsy Photoshopping.

Many of her more than half a million followers are seriously disappointed in Johanna, who earns good money from her photos. She is paid well by major clothing and cosmetics companies when she poses with their products. Many followers think this is unfair, because she is showing a reality that does not exist at all.

In one of the photos, Johanna can be seen on a bridge over the Seine in Paris. If you look closely, you can see that Johanna is floating above the road and has no shadow. The other photos also appear to have been manipulated. The lighting is often wrong and backgrounds do not match the foregrounds.

Sloppily cut-out hair
Johanna was asked to explain the controversial photos. She insisted that she really had been to Paris. Something her followers now seriously doubt. Which photos are real and which are fake? Nobody knows anymore...

She subsequently lost a large number of fans. According to her, she is certainly not the only one who 'messes around' with photos.

There are hundreds of colleagues around the world who do the same thing to look better in pictures. I did indeed fiddle with those Paris photos a little. And, admittedly, I have not yet completely mastered the photo-editing programme.

Recently, according to her fans, she went wrong again. She shared fashion photos that were supposedly taken in snowy Switzerland. The reactions left nothing to the imagination. Sadly, once again one hundred per cent fake, and unfortunately you still can't Photoshop. Johanna herself says she does not yet have enough money to hire a good photo editor. That will come eventually, she promises.

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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.

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5 comments

guest wrote on Tuesday 25 December 2018 at 12:36 | reply
It's always (!) a mess with that after editing. Learn how to make a regular photo properly.
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A. Maas wrote on Thursday 27 December 2018 at 12:17 | reply
I also know someone who is always busy post-processing his photos. I always find the result terribly bad.
Learn to control your camera better instead of pixel peeping. Or ... buy a Fuji the JPg's are always sparkling with color.
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Donald Willemsen wrote on Saturday 5 January 2019 at 00:06 | reply
Two generalizing contributions so far. What's wrong with post-processing in Photoshop (Ps). If you shoot in RAW, you do have to post-process. If you then use Ps or Lr for post-processing, you should do it properly too. So first take a few decent courses, then practice a lot and gain experience, and only then do you get around to publishing your photos. By the way, I don't call giving a photo a different background 'post-processing'. In my opinion, that's 'manipulating', creating the suggestion that..............
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Michelle Peeters wrote on Saturday 5 January 2019 at 00:12 | reply
@Donald: agreed! But in this case someone was sent on a trip for a lot of money to be photographed at a specific location wearing specific items of clothing. If you then disregard that and also badly manipulate photos yourself (a good photo editor was apparently too expensive?), then you're not really doing a good job...
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Donald Willemsen wrote on Saturday 5 January 2019 at 11:00 | reply
@Michelle, that's right. I therefore condemn such conduct. But I think it's going too far to lump 'post-processing' and 'manipulation' in Ps together.
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