What do you think of this? Portrait retouching

[pixy0stix]

www.portraitprofessional.com/

I'm loling at how bad the retouching is, personally.

[mominatrix]

Let's make everybody blurry and have freaky glowing eyes!

[pixy0stix]

And plastic skin!

[Deleted]

I can't decide if this is scary or sad.

Probably a little bit of both. Some of those people look not just incredibly fake, but completely unrecognizable from their pictures.

I'd be pissed if my photographer did that to me. It's one thing to smooth out a few things, another to completely alter someone's appearance. (Full disclosure: I asked our photographer to retouch our Christmas portrait. The way we were posed caused my shirt to open a little more than I would have liked, so I asked her to darken it a little so the girls weren't hanging out nearly as much. I don't think that changed the photo or my appearance all that much...)

[basilosaurus]

Aug 27, 2012 16:38:17 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

And plastic skin!

That's what freaks me out the most.

Retouching isn't bad, but you still have to look like yourself. Grandma should have some wrinkles.

[jena]

creepy and horrible!! wow. It's one thing to have a zit removed from a picture or magically erase that booger hanging from your kid's nose in an otherwise great pic. But changing the shape of your face??? Whats the point unless you're trying to see what you look like with a nose job, a chin job, and losing 50lbs.

[ttt]

What is the point of having your picture made if the picture looks nothing like you??

The young guy looked much better in the before pic too.

[livinitup]

I like the one where the curly haired girl lost 20 lbs in her neck and face. That's awesome. I wish it worked in mirrors, too. But really what's the point if you can't walk around like that?

[pedanticwench]

Why would you want these beautiful freckles to disappear?

[dev22]

So many of those original pics were great - way better than the plasticy re-touched ones.

[ttt]

They completely change the shape of this woman's nose:

[ttt]

What do these people have against freckles???

[ttt]

This doesn't even look like the same person. And not in a good way.

[ttt]

I really hate the kids ones. Way to tell your children that they're not good enough!

[foundmylazybum]

::Stopping by:::

This is just weird. It seriously skeeves me out just a tad to think that our perception of ourselves can be skewed so much....
"But I looked 50 pounds lighter in that picture!"

"I never look that old in my pictures!"

It's like we can just cover up anything....it's weird.

[epphd]

The "retouched" ones look like freaky CGI renderings of humans. Like bad (or good?) video game avatars. Ew.

[bhnumbers]

Aug 27, 2012 17:41:35 GMT -5 ttt said:

I really hate the kids ones. Way to tell your children that they're not good enough!

exactly. and kids pretty much have perfect skin! why make them look like plastic dolls? yuck.

[doctorwho]

Aug 27, 2012 16:56:26 GMT -5 livinitup said:

I like the one where the curly haired girl lost 20 lbs in her neck and face. That's awesome. I wish it worked in mirrors, too. But really what's the point if you can't walk around like that?

I know right? Why would you want everyone thinking you gained a bunch of weight since you had your picture taken?

[heightsyankee]

Aug 27, 2012 19:52:19 GMT -5 bhnumbers said:

Aug 27, 2012 17:41:35 GMT -5 ttt said:

I really hate the kids ones. Way to tell your children that they're not good enough!

exactly. and kids pretty much have perfect skin! why make them look like plastic dolls? yuck.

I guess because if you didn't, it would make the adults look even freakier. Either way, it's disturbing.

[sunny]

I guess it just shows me how much retouching they must do in ads and magazines... pretty crazy.

[Deleted]

Aug 27, 2012 16:56:26 GMT -5 livinitup said:

I like the one where the curly haired girl lost 20 lbs in her neck and face. That's awesome. I wish it worked in mirrors, too. But really what's the point if you can't walk around like that?

Now she has a picture that looks nothing like her. I wonder how she feels about that? She had a really cute smile.

All the retouched pics look like plastic baby doll "skin".

[orangeblossom]

I hate it when they make people's eyes ultra blue to the point they look unnatural. Now that freaks me out. This happens with Paula Deen a lot on magazine covers. She looks creepy when they do that.

[msgeeksout]

Never mind all the missing freckles and changes to the face shapes/body parts but they changed the color of of their eyes! How bizarre and insulting.

[bhnumbers]

Aug 27, 2012 21:53:04 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

I hate it when they make people's eyes ultra blue to the point they look unnatural. Now that freaks me out. This happens with Paula Deen a lot on magazine covers. She looks creepy when they do that.

yep. and that's the only time she looks creepy!

[Michelle]

I think I have lived in Texas too long... many of those pics of the adult women don't bother me at all.

Of course I have freckles and sun spots and really like how much good foundation smoothes out my skin. It doesn't completely cover all my freckles but it does smooth out my sun damage.

Most of those pics of the kids are weird and creepy. Like a pack of Cullen kids or something.

[basilosaurus]

Aug 27, 2012 17:58:30 GMT -5 epphd said:

The "retouched" ones look like freaky CGI renderings of humans. Like bad (or good?) video game avatars. Ew.

That's exactly what I was trying to think of. My brain kept saying robot skin, but I knew that wasn't right. CGI is what it was looking for. Creepy!

[bhnumbers]

I just looked at these again and it's pretty obvious that the before pictures were done in purposefully bad lighting and stupidly close up. I think that their "flaws" were played up. I have tons of freckles and visible pores, but they've never been quite that obvious in pictures.

Also, who gets portraits taken THAT close other than head shots for actors? And if that's the case you can't have your head shot looking so dramatically different from your actual appearance can you?

[twotrue]

I'd love to get rid of a zit or two but the rest of that is way too much.

[ringstrue]

We have a picture of DH and I from a family photo session on the beach (you know, those ones where everyone wears khakis and the same colored shirt? vom). Anyway, the shop place totally brushed over everything on our faces and we look so freaky. It really drives it home when you see it done to your own face or your loved ones. We look like we are 8 year olds with our baby-butt soft skin, lol.

[ttt]

What is wrong with this child's picture???



or this one??

Apart from some minor lighting adjustments, there is NOTHING wrong with these children's faces!! It makes me sad that anyone would think there is.