Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Fake

I don't like seeing fake pictures.

Fake pictures are insincere. The colors are either too bright or too dark, too bland or too rich, too expressive or too mellow... they are just too impossible. And that's a lot of 'too's right there.

I especially have a laugh when I see beauty editing on pictures. Jururawat merata-rata tetiba hilang. The lines on the neck signifying years of built up fatness suddenly are gone. Necks that are normally short and stout like tree trunks become as skinny as my arms... and my arms are really skinny mind you.

This is just me, but if you are a photographer and you really need to photoshop like literally all of your pictures, that means you need to brush up your camera skills. Or, you need to get better models and props. Even worse, it might mean that you just don't have any creative ideas on what pictures to take so you just try to spice up things using your 'ciplak' adobe photoshop.

If you are a model and you need all that photoshop touch up going on. I have one word for you, ok maybe two, I'm not really sure, but the word is - make-up. Don't try to touch up the imperfections on your skin using photoshop. Those pics are the easiest to detect... and they are ultra lame.

For this reason, I have told myself to never photoshop my pictures. Not that I don't have the ability to photoshop. It really isn't that hard. But maintaining the authenticity of the picture to me is really important.

1 comment:

etc said...

jururawat = nurse
jerawat = pimples?

ape ni adam