Very interesting site - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

heather_dw · 02-14-2006, 11:14 AM

http://www.glennferon.com/portfolio1/index.html

this site shows the before pics and the retouched images. Some of them are a very dramatic difference.

Just think.. young girls are killing themsleves trying to look like people that have been digitally enhanced!

srmb60 · 02-14-2006, 12:01 PM

That site is awesome!

Do you remember that photo spread that Jamie Lee Curtis did a few years ago? She held up a copy of it on Ellen or Oprah and said "You can't look like this. I don't look like this!"

Melody2006 · 02-14-2006, 12:13 PM

WOW. I played around with that alot.

heather_dw · 02-14-2006, 12:21 PM

The one that sticks out at me the most, was a bikini girl on her hands and knees.. they gave her a whole new butt!

srmb60 · 02-14-2006, 12:26 PM

Is that Cuba Gooding jr with a girl? They lifted her back end and her shorts

I've been a nurse for a lot of years and I ain't never seen that many round boobs!

teapotdynamo · 02-14-2006, 12:35 PM

Wow, is that ever depressing. Some of the most beautiful, respected people still aren't good enough. What a mixed-up culture we have!

p.s. I just noticed another thing about these photos -- in more cases than not, he wipes out any definition in women's muscles! It's that old bias about muscles not being "feminine," I think... how sad, because many of these women look PUMPED in the "befores"!

srmb60 · 02-14-2006, 12:40 PM

True! Like Halle isn't drop dead gorgeous even in her before's.

famograham · 02-14-2006, 12:40 PM

Very Cool...now if only the world would start to truly understand that!

xoxo
Linda

heather_dw · 02-14-2006, 12:41 PM

it amazes me how plastic looking some of the after pics are

srmb60 · 02-14-2006, 12:44 PM

I got to wondering how much of it is laziness on the part of the photographers. You don't need good lighting or a studio or back drops. These girls don't even need make-up. You can just add it all in later.

NemesisClaws · 02-14-2006, 12:48 PM

I've noticed with black folks that there is a tendency to lighten up their skin tones when I think they look great like they are. Our society is so warped when it comes to this issue.

heather_dw · 02-14-2006, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by NemesisClaws

I've noticed with black folks that there is a tendency to lighten up their skin tones when I think they look great like they are. Our society is so warped when it comes to this issue.

They seem to want to "orange-ify" their skin tone

Melodious1 · 02-14-2006, 01:04 PM

I am amazed! Some of these people look baaaaaaaaaad before the retouches were done. Wow!

kykaree · 02-14-2006, 01:38 PM

Can he come and do a retouch job on me before I leave the house every morning????

Sorry, I haven't missed the point really!!!

I think it was a photo of Tyra banks, in the middle with bulging boobs, anyway I really noticed her hands. Since I have been weight lifting I have bulging veins and sinews in my hands, it's not a problem, but I notice she has them too, but they completely retouched them away.

Sad that the very things that helped sculpt her body are airbrushed away.

NotTheCheat · 02-14-2006, 01:47 PM

I had a friend who was a model and when she first showed me her book, I probably wouldn't have known it was her in many of them if the pictures weren't all together. I was stunned at what they could do with make-up and and retouches. Most of the women we see in advertisements and magazines do not look that way in person.