What is that Photoshop? A shop in your country? Do they sell film?no Photoshop policy
Is the tide turning on retouched models?
In my experience, shooting a lot of amateur-models and usually doesn't have a MUA, the girls themselves want processing done (albeit with a natural looking result). I will not even think of the reactions if I start to leave in pimples, blemishes and dark rings below the eyes for example.
Usually I also get requests if I can "push in this" and "fix that" before the shoot even starts. (typical bellies, butts and thighs)
Personally I like a natural, lightly-processed shots where the blemishes in the face are fixed and the body is left alone. But I do know that the girls I shoot gets total brain-lock if they see some (normal) wrinkle or body fat that they aren't satisfied with.
Women are their own worst enemy IMO......as it seems that most grown men actually prefer women with natural looks and the body fat that us supposed to be there. (Healthy women are supposed to have about twice the amount of body fat than men, it will naturally bend and buckle during posing).
Besides, what will happen when that magazine starts pushing out "perfect" models with no shopping done......what will happen to the body pressure that younger women tend to get hung up in?
These days at least, one can say "yeah, but the shots are manipulated". If the magazines start to use naturally thin women or women with "hard bodies" from a lot of training, exercise, special genes and a strict food regiment.....what will then happen to the pressure-factor?
Well, here in Norway, the population is generally pretty healthy (although both sexes are getting fatter these days).
The problem over here, is that normal, slender and perfectly normal girls, want to have sixpacks.
When a person has a visible sixpack (Madonna's body), they have a fat percentage which is about 5%, while the norm is somewhere between 20-30 for women and 15 and 20 for men, AFAIK.
- Such a low fat percentage can, among other things, be linked to a high risk of Osteoporosis (brittle bone disease) when females pass the menopause.
(Here's a typical chart) http://www.builtlean.com/2010/08/03/ideal-body-fat-percentage-chart/ )
There are skinny people and people who have a low-fat percentage, but this isn't really the norm.
If they plan to use normal people (average fat percentage) with no shopping, I would have no problem with the idea, but if they just start using people which isn't really representative, then IMO the idea of "no shopping" could do more harm than good.
Retouching has been going on LONG before the arrival of Photoshop. I was always amazed what people could do with an airbrush.
what i find funny is that there is even a backlash about this ...
models have for a long long long time been "a fantasy"
if the magazines want to show a "regular person" as something fantastic
great, if they want to show someone who has been "reconstructed" to fit
some sort of art director's ideal, great.
i remember reading somewhere that some "models" were going to be computer generated ...
a figment of someone's imagination .. and that's fine by me seeing most of what is
in magazines &c are pretty much the same thing ... a fantasy.
the obesity issue is linked to poverty, cheap foods high in fats and salts, and the fact
that cheap sugar ( HFCS ) is pretty much in everything one buys from catsup to salad dressing to
crackers, and unless people go back to making their own foods, or having enough money to buy
"good food" ( which is extremely expensive ) and having less leisure time, and more being active time
the world is going to suffocate in its own fat. humans for generation after generation have worked hard
eaten real foods and died young, it makes sense that when you change the equation that caloric intake
will take its toll. ( even at 7 years old )
:munch: is 300lbs
You're 300lbs? I always pictured you kind of scraggly, tell and slender like Maynard G Krebbs without the goatee
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nope the emoticon --> :munch:
too much junk food, carmel corn and soda
In this day and time of absurd runaway political correctness, I've noticed that overweight women are the new PC fashion models. They're getting hefty, and it's becoming a pretty common trend. But you'll recall the "fashion world" a few years ago made some rules about their use of the toothpick girls, and now are going off the deep end in the opposite direction.
Retouching has been going on LONG before the arrival of Photoshop. I was always amazed what people could do with an airbrush.
I hope the makeup artists are asking for more money.
Or at least personally - lacking a makeup artist - I've spent more time dealing with blemishes and other minor flaws than I do shooting at times. I imagine anyone involved in getting it right in camera is going to be more in demand if this idea starts spreading. I have my doubts about consumers caring though.
What about this 'HD' make-up you can get? And what does it even mean? It's like that glasses advert where the northern woman says "it's laark a-can see in aitch dee" - in which case I think she needs to go back to the opticians.
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