Photoshop manipulation

[daphnep]

A fascinating analysis of the editing done to photographs from Victoria's Secret was linked today from Boingboing

Comments

[molinaslim]

I bought that dress in grey. I love it.

[daphnep]

Ha! And you need no pumping or smoothing whatsoever, to totally rock it as a fashion item!

That's awesome.

[molinaslim]

Not that it wouldn't be nice to have my own personal photoshop artist tweaking my image...

[karenscrayons]

Facinating.

[kylecassidy]

there are lot of photo retouchers & retouching houses who have commercial websites up with examples of their before & after work.

[kylecassidy]

check out glenn feron:

http://glennferon.com/portfolio1/

he knocked 10 years off of westly clark for the cover of his book "time to lead"

[hatmix]

Amazing!! Thank you so much for linking this!

[daphnep]

That's awesome! I've posted links to some of them, before, but none of the ones I've found have been this extensive. That's so cool!

I know the celebrity ones often have contracts about not releasing their images as part of portfolios...oddly enough, I like a lot of the "product" ones, too--real chrome isn't shiny enough, real glass not glassy enough. This is fantastic!

[prmolina]

In college I took a course on photography and after learning how to develop and print black and white they had us take some of our photos and "spot" them. Use ink and brush and fix places where miniscule pieces of tarnished silver had flecked off the photo paper leaving a white spot. I couldn't do it. I made some streaks off to one side, slopped some ink in, but it just was morally wrong. The very idea destroyed the whole and entirety of the appeal of photography to me

[daphnep]

I'd like to think that "pure" photography still has an important place in the world--in the art world, in particular, but also in the realm of photojournalism, and probably others as well...just not in advertising, any longer.

You describe so well the assets that the pure "mechanical" side of photography bring to the table...ironic, isn't it, since it was this aspect that made people disregard photos as "art" in the beginning. Now it's like an almost nostalgic component. Thanks for this.