Did these 2 images as an audition to do a part-time photoshop job for an online client, haha i didn't get in, probably cos they had a lot of other candidates that were better/faster than me. But just thought I'd share to show everyone that you really can't trust anything on the internet nowadays, if a picture looks too perfect, 99% of the time it is.
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Images aren't mine, but I did this so long ago, I can't rmbr what was the studio i did this for anymore.. haha and it was from this that i realised clients have such strange requests for photoshop, like asking you to remove blemishes from a newborn. wth, it's literally baby smooth skin and they still want it to be more perfect.
k rant over, let me know what you think about photoshop and are you in the purist camp which feels any photoshop at all is a lie, or do you feel it's just another way that we as photographers can express our photographs more as art.
I use photoshop a lot, but for me its knowing where to draw the line and what needs doing.
I shoot for Getty/ istock so i have to remove all logos, but i will also remove things that take your attention away from the main focus on the image (buildings in background, telephone wires, people in background etc)
But i don't alter people to make them look thinner etc, and actually recently Getty banned this type of photoshop following a new law by advertisers in France.
But just to counter the purist argument, most images from days gone by that people think of as being "pure" weren't unedited. Editing has been happening for as long as photographs have existed. It's just now we as a consumer are more aware of it.
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Yeah I really don't like the making people thinner bit, but that's perhaps the most requested thing i get from clients about photos of themselves.
Personally to me, removing logos and cleaning up images is alright, haha i generally don't stand with the purists, unless you're doing documentary/news photography where you are claiming to be presenting the truth, then i feel altering a photo beyond just lighting/color is going too far.
The counter-counter-argument to that is that darkroom techniques were quite limited in what they could do, but almost nothing is impossible with photoshop nowadays.
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