I'm not crazy about it, but I can see why it might appeal to some
brides. I'd do it if asked. I don't see a way to batch it, you have to
leave the eyes untouched, and the skin is treated differently than the
dress and background. I figure it would take me about ten minutes per
shot. I'd charge for it. Simple.
I do retouch bad skin without being asked. I've never had a bride
mention it. They just beam when they see that their complexion appears
to be at least normal nice.
Paul
On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote:
Here is an example of some of what we are seeing in the wedding
world. Do you like it? How long would it take per photo to make
this kind of change?
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8420492&size=lg
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Bruce
Monday, March 23, 2009, 2:06:54 PM, you wrote:
ME> Interesting read. As others have pointed out, manipulation is
nothing new.
ME> Here are some pre-digital examples:
ME> When Fujichrome and later Velvia came out, some photographers
derisively
ME> referred to it as "Disneychrome" due to its saturated colors.
ME> In a pre-digital article in Outdoor Photographer back in the
1990's, Galen
ME> Rowell described using stacked ND gradient filters to achieve
more than 10
ME> stops of gradient in an image. If that's not HDR imaging, I
don't know what
ME> is!
ME> Lith printing and toning (selenium, gold, etc.) are chemical
forms of image
ME> manipulation.
ME> Black and white is manipulation in and of itself, since it
involves
ME> converting color light into a monochrome image.
ME> Ansel Adams used darkroom manipulation to wipe out a giant white
"L" put on
ME> an Alabama Hills slope by the students at Lone Pine high school
in the
ME> following image:
ME>
ME> http://www.anseladams.com/index.asp?
PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1858
ME> The whole Pictorialism movement (dating from the 1880's) was all
about
ME> manipulating images to obtain "painterly" effects.
ME> etc.
ME> I personally find a lot of the manipulation that I see today
really
ME> annoying, particularly garish HDR and odd sharpening effects
that seem to be
ME> in vogue. Even worse is the body sculpting and image distortion
that
ME> fashion magazines use to turn models into cartoons with
unattainable body
ME> shapes. As a father of two daughters, that really bothers me....
ME> --Mark
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