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Airbrushing
Feb. 13th, 2009 11:47 amI took a break this morning and pulled an image out of the Flickr group where people post images and invite other people to modify them. Most people do lots of cutting and pasting foreground and background, some people do all images of women with full doll-face, and some people do really interesting things.
I worked on this image to practice working with skin. It makes a huge difference when the image is sharp and well-exposed. This took me all of 10 minutes and I'm pleased with the way it came out. I still don't know where I land on the goodness of taking normal people and making them look some ideal perfect, but in practice the viewing experience of looking at someone in person vs looking at a sharp-focus close-up unmoving image of them, they are just two completely different things and I think it's reasonable to remove the things theat they, with makeup and plucking and depilatories, were trying to remove themselves. Even without makeup if they have a big zit you're not going to just stare at it when you're talking to them yet but on a picture of them it would be front and center. So it makes sense to me to take it out. Wrinkles and scars I think should stay but can be de-emphasized, again with the goal of making the experience of looking at the photo more like the experience of looking at the person.
And then there's faux plastic surgery which is just wrong but I love doing it. For practice, of course.
Behind cuts for bandwidth, it should be completely SFW.
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I worked on this image to practice working with skin. It makes a huge difference when the image is sharp and well-exposed. This took me all of 10 minutes and I'm pleased with the way it came out. I still don't know where I land on the goodness of taking normal people and making them look some ideal perfect, but in practice the viewing experience of looking at someone in person vs looking at a sharp-focus close-up unmoving image of them, they are just two completely different things and I think it's reasonable to remove the things theat they, with makeup and plucking and depilatories, were trying to remove themselves. Even without makeup if they have a big zit you're not going to just stare at it when you're talking to them yet but on a picture of them it would be front and center. So it makes sense to me to take it out. Wrinkles and scars I think should stay but can be de-emphasized, again with the goal of making the experience of looking at the photo more like the experience of looking at the person.
And then there's faux plastic surgery which is just wrong but I love doing it. For practice, of course.
Behind cuts for bandwidth, it should be completely SFW.
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