Retouching
Ever wanted to know how models actually look?
This website is a huge reality slap about the unfair standards of women's beauty. Not to mention this guy's slogan is " Nature gives us beauty - Artists enhance it". What a creeper; I think he's actually proud of his so-call 'art.'
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I've seen this site or one very much like it before. But somehow they never get old- I can sit there for a ridiculously long time going "big boobs...little boobs... flab...no flab... facial hair...no facial hair..." It's fascinating like a train wreck. It also always amazes me how much more REAL the unretouched people look.
Some of it's really cool - like removing backgrounds (I always wish I was better at that) or enhancing the colors so that everything is vibrant...but the one where the woman had normal boobs and then suddenly had boulders on her chest? Sigh. Some of the changes are so odd, like removing shadows on the shoulders where we have bones. What's up with that?
the fourth one in the second row is extremely frightening. Especially how he gave her a total boob job. Fake boobs are suddenly better than her normal ones? WTF.
That's definitely art... have you never used photoshop before? How ethical his art is is debateable, but its still art.
I think it's both hilarious and sad how warped today's beauty standards have become. I think I saw one where he made an already near-anorexic girl even skinnier, and then took out her ribs that were showing BECAUSE they were so skinny.
I liked how the very last one in the 5th row was an old woman. I don't know, I kinda like this site. It reminds me that even people who look "perfect" in magazines are really just normal-looking.
Yeah! I noticed the one where he took out the ribs, too. I was expecting the boob jobs, but one thing I wasn't expecting was how in so many pictures he took out the evidence of bones. You can see it a lot in the shoulder and collarbone area. There is also a picture of a very skinny girl where you can see the bones in her elbows, and he took that out.
It makes me think how thinness isn't really the ideal, but some sort of fleshy boneless thinness, where you're thin but all you have is skin and... curves, but certainly no bones.
Oh, and the second one in the last row was SCARY. He took a healthy-looking woman who would be termed "fat" by today's stick-thin models and kept her big boobs, while making her waist and hips smaller. Tsk, tsk, Mr. Feron!
He's not a very good retoucher. Check out the old woman in the pink jacket - her hat still has the old background in it! He forgot to retouch in between the hat!
hahaha, fail.
Lol. Well it was good enough to grace the pages of "The Daily."