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  2. This doesn’t even register any surprise with me at all, its fashion! So long as the shot looks good… This even happens a lot in my lowend ad work… I’m more surprised that you’re surprised Leslie!? Sienna’s still gorgeous though!

    1. Perhaps it is because I am a normally imperfect woman who has enough problems trying to fit into society’s image of beauty (even though I am in better shape than most Am. women). She is a lovely woman who just didn’t need this kind of visual manipulation! Fashion needs to be a smidge more real, not less.
      –Leslie

  3. Hi Lesley,

    I find it odd that you find this level of retouching “ridiculous”. I have just spent the last three days working on a hair shoot where we were comping together different body parts from different shots during the shoot to tell the retoucher which bits to use. With the tools we have today we no longer have to settle for having the best hair, but a hand out of place, or a blink ruin the shot.

    In your experience in studio managing, production, and from the many photographic consultations you have done have you never come across this before?

    1. Of course I’ve come across it–that is not the question–it’s just BS. There are plenty of beautiful people out there…why not show them more realistically? There have been studies that have shown that women are more likely to buy products advertised using beautiful-but-realistically-so models rather than the supermodel/built-in-photoshop women.

      I also almost never work with fashion photographers for exactly this reason–the whole system sets my teeth on edge.

      Btw, my name is spelled Leslie, not -ey 🙂

  4. I don’t feel that this falls under the same category of creating unrealistic standards of beauty, since they actually used her own body despite it being from a different shot. I’ve done this same thing pretty frequently myself with photos of bands. You always get that one guy who blinks or won’t stop talking, but everyone else looks great in the shot, so I have to find another shot where the blinker looks great, then transpose that head (or just face) onto the shot where everyone else looks good. Voila! The whole band looks fantastic and it’s all really them. I tend to look at it more as manipulating time by a few minutes than manipulating beauty.

  5. my appologies for the name. it was very late at night here in aus.

    can you direct me to the studies you refer to? i’d be really interested to read them – I have a degree in neuroscience and some behavioral psych as well.

  6. I also am surprised you found this ridiculous. It would have been ridiculous if it was a different person all together. I thought the article said it was a shot from the same shoot, too. I actually do this kind of retouching quite frequently. It’s all about finding the BEST IMAGE and sometimes, you need to combine a few to get the right one.

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