Manipulation

That's a pretty sick girl, right? She totally shouldn't be modeling, right? I mean, she totally needs to eat a cheesburger.

Those three sentences may be true, but the photograph they describe isn't. Here is the real photo:


Again, it's Colette Pechekhonova. This time, I came across the fake photo first, and then went searching for the real photo. Why are her photos so popular for manipulation? Well, it is easier to make a skinny person even skinnier than to make a normal or heavy person skinny. Less changing of the body shape itself (just shrinking). Drawing on ribs is easy.

This is one reason why I love runway shots... they might be touched up, perhaps airbrushed a bit, but beyond that, what you see is what you get.

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Here are a few REAL photos for today. The subject is Johanna Stickland, an up-and-coming model. These are polaroids--no retouching at all. She's very pretty, and I love her ironic last name.