speaking of body images...

[alonewiththemoon]

A lot of my friends list and other online places have been talking about the Dove and new Nike ad campaigns and about showing "real women" as opposed to unrealistic models. I thought people might like to see this site in which the photographer reveals just how much of the women he shoots is "real" and how much is after the fact: http://glennferon.com/. Go to the portfolio, click on an image, and then mouse over to see the original photo. Photo 36 I think provides a pretty good example of how much is real and how much isn't, and how these women (and a couple of men) who are perfectly lovely in the first place still aren't deemed good enough as is.

(may not be entirely worksafe; hotties in skimpy bikinis galore)

Comments

[amadea.livejournal.com]

wow. that's horribly mesmerizing! #3 is such a radical change, it's like the final product was inspired by the initial photo but not really made of it. I think most of those pictures look less than artfully touched up.

[alonewiththemoon]

Yeah, he's not actually very good, but you know there's got to be people who are doing the same thing much better out there...