Happy Friday. Over at Vogue magazine, it seems the retouching crew was a little remiss with Mario Testino’s shot of Kate Moss and her daughter Lila –seems they…er…left off a few of her daughters fingers. Or worse, that her daughters fingers actually fused into her mom’s back.
So, we all know Photoshop happens. They’re in there taking out zits and making people skinnier than they really are, and taking out wrinkles and on and on. Yes, yes, we all “know” this. But is “oops, I just left off a few body parts” excusable? I don’t know where I stand on this. It’s a beautiful shot, but the sophomoric blunder isn’t lost on me.
Do YOU even care, or is it just expected that there will be some mistakes and faux pas along the way, so we should just get on with it anyway….?
(faux pas via Jezebel)
I am not very happy with ppl. photoshopping too much for magazin covers or else. But since it looks like we get the retouched pictures everywhere and everytime, I think we can at least expect to get perfectly photoshopped pictures. So in my opinion: It is a bad mistake and really sheds a bad light on Vogue’s photoshop-“artists”.
Photoshop.. Of course we need it (it’s just an extension of dodging and burning in an old darkroom).
Retouching.. Sometimes sure. Maybe the photographer didn’t use as flattering of light as he could of and there’s a few more pores showing than a fashion magazine would like.
But a mistake like this that I would literally expect from the work of a 14 year old learning photoshop.. Is totally inexcusable. I mean did they forgot the keyboard shortcut “cmd + z”
I believe that photoshop, lightroom, aperture, whatever your choice of tool, is absolutely most of the time nesacssary to “finish or finesse” a great image that was shot in camera. I mean really it’s the photographers vision that matters and let’s face it, no matter how sophisticated, a camera is still just a big chunk of metal and silicone that captures light. It is extremely limited. I doubt there were any if not very very few slides that Ansel Adams didn’t spend time dodging and burning to represent his vision they way he saw it.
I’m just not okay with the fact that vogues retouching team is I’m sure not starving for a paycheque and yet they’re making/not catching a mistake like this! I think society as a whole has come to expect that photoshop will be used, but gives those of who use it to finesse, a bad name when they see something like this.
The ones who made the mistake are Testino’s retouchers, Vogue doesn’t edit the photos…
Seems like the equivalent of a typo. Stuff happens. Still looks like a pretty nice picture….
If it wasn’t for the odd photoshop abuse we wouldn’t have fun websites like Photoshop Disasters!
Seriously, I do basic retouching and am fully aware of how much I have to learn (my focus is taking the pictures, not the retouching) – but there are some people, PROFESSIONAL people, who make me look like a freaking genius!