You Could Be a Model!
If you've been reading my blog a while, you may remember some pics I posted that would change when you hovered the mouse over them. Today on Digg I found an amusing website that does something similar. Glenn Feron does professional retouching of photos for models and actresses, and if you hover the mouse over the shots in his portfolio, you can see the before version of the after shot you're looking at (it may take awhile for the photo to appear). It's amazing what a good job he does, and what he can do to models who seem to suffer some of the same symptoms we do. 
This reminded me that my friend Norm does retouching too. For that matter, I enjoy tweaking photos myself, although I don't do it with the same degree of artistic talent that Norm and Glenn Feron employ. But it's still fun.
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Posted 8/22/2005 05:58:00 PM
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11 Comments:
I already photograph better than I look. I wish that there was a way that I could look as good as my pictures. I want to be touched up, not just pictures of me. :)
Hollywood is full of women who've been "touched up" :)
I've always thought the best ways for a woman to look better is to smile, be confident, move well, have joy inside and be nice to people. When the inside is beautiful and you can see it, it doesn't matter so much how the outside looks.
I need more than mouse to make me look good!!
Hehe.. First comment.. but WOW.. raising two girls, I never really realized how airbrushed and retouched some photos were. No real woman can ever be whats in a magazine these days. Hopefully I can show that to my girls and they can realize early one that its impossible to strive for that.
Hiya Tammy! Welcome to the land of Blog. ;)
Love your comment on the best way for a woman to look better! I completely agree . . . a smile is an instant facelift. And who wants to look like of all the plastic people in Hollywood anyway? I am one of those people who thinks the nontraditional face is a beautiful face, wrinkles and all. I love the character of our faces as they age, and despise the culture's obsession with youth.
That said, great photo retouching by those guys! Wow! I wish that all women would see the work that goes into a photo shoot, before and after, and stop comparing themselves to the false pictures in the magazines.
Same here, Shari.
Does that make me "easy"? :)
Wow, some of those photos are so horribly unattractive to me, the retouched versions, I mean. They look like Pixar beauty queens or something with all their muscle tone and bone-lines removed like that. Ick.
This reminds me of the billboards with "real, everyday models" modeling ladies underwear. I think it's for Hanes? Some people didn't like them, saying they were too natural and not glamorous enough -- and what they want to see when they have some girl standing in her underwear is the glamor-girl fantasy. Whatever. I think it's prettier and sexier to be able to look at a real body and see all the lines and scars and actual human body parts (did you notice many of those ladies in the retouched photos had their armpits removed? LOL Whoa, what's going to happen to the anti-perspirant market if they keep this up?!). There's a naturalness and even a vulnerability that comes through that's immediately attractive to me. That said, I'm completely admitting I feel better about myself when I've got a little makeup on and I'm wearing flattering clothes. But it's also true that I feel best on the outside when my inside is as beautified as it can be.
Dave, what you said about ways for a woman to look better goes for men, too. :)
I love those "real women" commercials! Brent loves them too, so it's not just women who are relieved to see curves. I hope the trend continues.
Wow, some of them don't even look the same.
On some the before is definitely better than the after. Natural is just more , um, natural...
Gary
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Oh yeah, Dave. Some of these models have the 'same symptoms we do.' Riiiiight....i just *hate* the way my ass doesn't stick out that last couple of millimeters when I'm wearing my thong bikini!
hehehehe
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