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I don’t know if it is in bad taste, but the shot on the right looks more like a wax figure than anything human.

Mr C. worries about all the people I erase from our vacation pictures. He thinks I’ve killed them….

sure wish I had known how to Photoshop in my first marriage.

What’s even more chilling is these children made up for their pageants. They LOOK like those photos with the layers and layers of make up and the provocative clothing!!! OMG. Toddlers and Tiaras is just all sorts of wrong. Gotta hand it to them tho, they show moms who just won’t go the glitz route, they want to keep their children natural. I just hope they’ll continue to have pageants to go to since the glitz pageants are the money makers.

Digitized mortuary make-up.

Was that third link supposed to lead somewhere? Although I’ll admit to being a bit embarrassed at following any of the links. . .really, those are just sad, so sad. . .

Didn’t they dress up/phototouch young women and kids as fairies for photograph in 19th Cen. UK? I thought that was C.S. Lewis’ little perversion?

We seem to have crashed “Or even this”.

They have been Weasel-anched!

As an occasional portrait photographer, I absolutely hate hate hate HATE WITH THE FIERY BURNING HEAT OF A THOUSAND SUPERNOVAS when clients ask me to remove their facial blemishes in post.

Not only no, but fuck no. If you want your portrait painted, hire a painter and leave me the fuck alone.

Redd, I believe you are thinking of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll–Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass); he was an enthusiastic photographer, and young girls–sometimes nude–were among his subjects. The fairy photographs were a whole different issue–a fraud by two girls in the early 20th century (Sweas, didn’t you blog about that at some point?) C.S. Lewis (the Chronicles of Narnia) was mid-twentieth century and not particularly known as a photographer.

Randy –

Just remove the entire face with the blemish. its easier, and gets the point across.

The Cottingley Fairies were two girls photographing faires traced from a book and glued on paper stands.

It was good enough to fool Conan Doyle.

Man, those pics went into the Uncanny Valley like Wile E. Coyote.

For a second there, I thought that they were doing a before and after shot from Toddlers and Tiaras……

Which is even worse, in my opinion…

Oh, hells noes.

Jeff: Exactly what I was thinking. This takes them from human to “creepy human facsimile”.

Also:

God damn it, they’re kids. People should LET them be kids.

Stoaty: To answer your question. No. No no no. No more regulation. Government isn’t the solution, government is the problem. If you catch yourself saying, “There aughta be a law,” hie thee hence to the nearest booze-store, buy a LOT of it, and start drinking heavily until the urge for government intervention passes.

Creepier than I can name for doing that to a kid. Any kid, anywhere. Repulsive, repellant.

OH MY GOD!!!! ROFLMAO!!!

Chickaboomer has a Youtube Video of one of Ernest Borgnine’s last interviews. they asked him what the secret to longevity is. His answer?

MASTURBATION!!!!! LOLOLOL…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I_PeLNzxNQ&feature=player_embedded

And as Ernest discovered, when you get so old you forget to masturbate, you die…

I know someone who does that to her kid. Kid’s a teen now, but it’s not any better

Sorry about the dead link. Fixed now.

The first link got me sort of mildly pissed off, I could see the second one being embraced by mothers with a reinforced “tacky” chromosome, but the last one goes beyond retouching, beyond tacky or infuriating or bizarre, and just leaves me sort of…flat, I guess. The kids in the final link (please god let it be the final link) look like illustrations of kids, not photographs.

It’s a free country, I am sometimes sorry to say.

Covering zits is one thing, removing any trace of texture or pores becomes plastic.

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Um, thanks. I guess.

I see your OMG and raise you five:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/transmedia

Women are sooooo competitive. I finally came to the realization that women don’t dress to attract men; they dress to out-beautiful other women.

NOTE: One beautiful friend of mine politely suggested to me that women DO dress for men… but they aren’t trying to attract men like me

🙁

Jeebus, when you look at this low-grade kiddie pron it looks like they even “whitened the eyes” so the kid looks like there is no one home. The corneas are even clean and shiny, like a new hubcap.
That is some sick shiite and whoever came up with this nonsense (and kiddie pageants) should be hung from a moving train and caught on one of those poles they catch mailbags with without stopping the train. If one run doesn’t do the job, repeat until the person is a sack of goo. What an ass, whoever that person might be.
There are some sickass folks walking this earth.

Outtie.

What has been seen…..

I should have known not to follow those links. I’m not sure how I will ever repay you.

Redd,

That was Lewis Caroll you’re thinking of. He photographed young girls nude, including young Alice Riddell. He was also unduly affectionate to her and had to be admonished about it.

I don’t mind the faeries one, that’s kind of cute and not creepy like the eerie inhumanly airbrushed versions of children.

Stoaty, I ran across this advert earlier today and had to look it up again after I saw this post. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/sexy-star-advertisements-gallery-1.26950

To my eye this looked so incredibly over-photoshopped and fake (especially the guy) that I couldn’t believe it. Not as bad as what you posted, but this is a full-fledged ad campaign for a major name!

Oh, FKaSkeptic…all you gotta do is type “bad photoshops” into Google and you can wile away many happy hour staring at appalling ‘shops from all kinds of major campaigns. Vogue is a repeat offender. I love the ones where they’ve chopped the lady’s waist so thin you couldn’t fit a spin through in.

I can’t help but think of Foxworthy’s wish for a counterpart to “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” where guys can send their wives to “slut ’em up a little” here. That would be handy, though.

I just have to get some clarification from Nina on one point:

“Comment from Nina
Time: July 12, 2012, 9:56 am

I know someone who does that to her kid. Kid’s a teen now, but it’s not any better”

Were you not aware that the two prior posts has somehow changed the topic to masturbation, or were you reporting a sex crime?

There’s a thing in William Gibson’s Neuromancer where people have their consciousness blocked so they can basically be high-end sex toys. They’re called Meat Puppets. This is what meat puppets look like. Horrible Little Miss Sunshine vibe there.

This is what you get when you let parents choose how to raise their children. I’m certain the UN will be happy to intervene.

The photos remind me of the old American Girl catalog, when you could submit a photo of a child and get a doll made in her likeness. The retouched photos do NOT look like living human beings. I have to say that the fairy photos, however, would be VERY popular with a couple of my nieces. They dress like fairies all the time – to be inserted into a fairy world where their image was “to scale” would tickle them no end.

The whorified little girl images are… disturbing.

However, you-can-be-a-fairy thing is just tacky but cute. Little girls like that sort of thing. No harm, no foul.

Mrs. Mcgyver (Giggles) is off to the Rocky Mountain School of Photograpy http://www.rmsp.com/-y5A where she is to learn lot’s of stuff but hopefully none of this freaky-deaky Uncanny Valley stuff. She does food photos mostly, so…

I’ll warn her ’bout this — Mcgyver, Out