Comments on: Girls should see this.

By: krys

krys — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:28:47 +0000

I kinda agree about the first one……but the other two? Take a better photo then! The second one - once retouched - bears almost no resemblance to the original, it could easily be someone else. And to my mind, the weirdest thing about the last one is the hairline.

Re-touching has it’s place - hey, even I’ve been known to do it to the odd photo - to remove that badly timed spot, the red-eye, whatever. However, there should be limits. The abusive element here is holding these images up as ideals for us to aspire too….when even that “ideal” is being faked.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:46:34 +0000

It’s about usage and abuse really isn’t it?
for example this image makes sense to be retouched - it emphasises the look they were going for. It just improves the image. Ditto this image, as the photographer produced a godawful photo.

whereas something like this makes the person look artificial and nasty.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:46:41 +0000

It’s weird how what can be attractive women are rendered into dolls.
Ick.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:49:35 +0000

Have a look here too : http://www.glennferon.com/portfolio1/index.html

Takes a wee while to load the other image, just move the mouse off and on the image to see the difference.

By: krys

krys — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:46:15 +0000

I can’t tell you how much better looking through all those has made me feel! *grin*

Now, where’s my airbrush…