Comments on: Magical Retouching

By: pinky

pinky — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:43:52 +0000

okay, the digital girls, that is freaking weird. the first, second and last look real!! what the hell?!? what is wrong with normal people? Laruen Hutton made a HUGE career out of having gapped teeth!!

oh, i’m disgusted.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:38:22 +0000

Total puke. Well, as soon as this stuff:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/virtual.html

becomes more common, we’ll live in a complete fantasy world. When real humans start to look like anomalies, what happens?

By: pinky

pinky — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:58:08 +0000

i agree with you on the quick tummy tucks. especially on Serena Williams. you could tell in the original that it was a muscular belly, not flabby.

i told a friend of mine that i wanted to start a line of clothing that is made for real women and have real women pose for the pictures. Pouchy tummies, flabby arms, those “i’ve-just-had-a-baby-and-my-hips-look-it” kind of women.

did you know that Lane Bryant stated they would not have “fat” models in their catalogs because “no one want to look at that”? don’t forget, Lane Bryant is a plus-size catalog.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:54:13 +0000

Only a little. It’s more of a humorous trope on my part.

By: Wah

Wah — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:46:44 +0000

you just have it in for poor timothy.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:44:52 +0000

Well, to that I offer a resounding LAME!

However, it does present certain possibilites to people who are actually good photographers. As in, all those sucky photogrpahers can only make your work look that much better without any extra effort on your part.

Perhaps that is Greenfield-Sanders’ secret!

By: Wah

Wah — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:31:45 +0000

I have noticed a problem with over-reliance on digital manipulation at my work. Many photographers have begun shooting with the idea that “it’ll be ok, we can fix it in photoshop.” Unfortunately the end product has a direct correlation to the quality of the initial image.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 16:29:15 +0000

Oh, man that site is nauseafying. He’s erased so many bellies and backs. Did you see he even reduced Serena Williams’ belly? I’m sure we can all agree that she does not have a flabby belly. The porn-aesthetic on that site is so gross: plastic-looking skin, wrinkle-erasure, impossible physiques. It is too heinous.

I disagree that some of the women needed touching up; I think they needed a better photographer in the first place. Most of the photos were so careless, as if the planned retouching meant that it didn’t matter what the original image quality was.

By: pinky

pinky — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:07:40 +0000

have you looked through his site? OMG, some of those women needed touching up. it was nice to see the before pictures with the fat lines and cellulite showing. it seems like he has a cheekbone aversion, though.

amazing what someone can do with a computer…maybe i should send him some of my wedding pics!!!