Interesting Post Processing site...

[Radtech1]

No tips, just one man's results. Does your PSing skills merit $125.00 per hour?

Note: Potentially slightly maybe not work safe.

http://glennferon.com.nyud.net:8090/portfolio1/portfolio05.html

Rad

[sugar_babygirli]

Amazing work, but gosh I hate when people retouch that much. :confused: Though I know very well that probably 99% of fashion photos in magazines are retouched, most other girls/women don't realize this and thus feel the "ideal" is impossible to achieve.

The guy has talent for sure, but I personally prefer more honest work such as lightly covering blemishes such as pimples or very slightly softening wrinkles. This fake, air-brushed, plastic effect is too much for me personally! lol

Thanks for the link though! Very interesting! :)

[jfrancho]

Looks more like the "art of bad lighting"

[neil_r]

Is it just me or has this guy got a "Make People Look Plastic" plug in for Photoshop. I think they are awful.

N

[Bob_A]

Interesting site. They take poorly lit images and convert them into cartoons.

[jfrancho]

It's almost as if they are using lighting as a tool to reveal and amplify any distracting features so they can be removed digitally.

[Bob_A]

It's almost as if they are using lighting as a tool to reveal and amplify any distracting features so they can be removed digitally.

Maybe it's a new art-form. :lol:

[archosman]

I work in post production for a video house and we end up having to do this quite a bit. It's about pleasing the client. A few years ago I did alot of graphic work for several sports shows. I was responsible for cutting out about 60 individuals for head shot purposes. Initially I would just cut them out so we could key them over an animated background. As i got better at it (PS 5.0) I would fix things like this... primarily blemishes. Realise that these were males and females playing college sports... so had alot of acne to clean up. I had one girl that had absolutely horrible acne on her face. I ended up spending about 4 hours on her face alone. It's a trade-off. You can fix some things but if you take out too many details you lose definition and it ends up looking a little too polished. I made her look great though. My favorite thing was erasing tatoos. All that pain to go through to get one and I would obliterate it! :) Nowadays no one seems to care about tatoos...

[chtgrubbs]

I am not impressed at all. It is entirely possible to do serious retouch work without making the subject look like a plastic doll

[archosman]

I am not impressed at all. It is entirely possible to do serious retouch work without making the subject look like a plastic doll
Yes. There's a lot of detail missing.

[colliewalker1]

Yes. There's a lot of detail missing.

My thoughts entirely - these models look very plastic and unreal.:rolleyes:

[Desertraptor]

He likes his work :o

I am not one for much makeup and less is always better in my book. IMO if a girl needs that much make up it's just false advertising and does nothing for the our children.
If I was one of the models I would not have signed any release for that.

[d100763]

IMHO, the guy has skills, and gets paid for what he does well. On the other side of the coin is
the fact that there is a lot of detail missing and the girls look like they belong in a shop window.
I am sure he has though of that, but if someone dropped enough green in my lap to do the same,
and it is a business (client wants-client gets) so it puts food on the table, I would do it.
I agree with everyone so far that it is way too much retouching, and there is a lot of nip/tuck/tighthen going on with the PS brush.

[Radtech1]

He likes his work :o

I am not one for much makeup and less is always better in my book. IMO if a girl needs that much make up it's just false advertising and does nothing for the our children.
If I was one of the models I would not have signed any release for that.


Peter,

I don't know if it matters, but I think you are missing a point. He is not a photographer. He does not hire or shoot the models. He is hired only to do the PSing on those photos which someone else took. The client brings him the shots and says "make me beautiful".

Rad

(even worse, huh)

[Bob_A]

I don't know if it matters, but I think you are missing a point. He is not a photographer. He does not hire or shoot the models. He is hired only to do the PSing on those photos which someone else took. The client brings him the shots and says "make me beautiful".

I agree that that is what he is supposed to do. However, to me he is doing a poor job when the images no longer look like photographs, but look like cartoons instead. If I were an advertiser I be pretty disappointed with some of these. There are a few reasonable ones, and some that are just horrible in my opinion.

[jfrancho]

There are a few of one model that has very attractive features, especially in the eyes, and the after shot totally removes that indentifying feature. Maybe it is a personal taste thing, but I think for retouching, you should remain in the realm on the models' physical structure, without drastically changing eye placement, jaw structure, and so on.

[neil_r]

He has even added a breast to one that was not there in the original pic :confused:.

Now you can all have fun looking for it :lol:

[jfrancho]

He has even added a breast to one that was not there in the original pic :confused:.

Now you can all have fun looking for it :lol:I saw that one too, yet somehow I didn't mind....