Boring. . . ! Dull. . . . ! Give it a rest already. This is not news. Model Crystal Renn was “shocked and stunned” to find her picture altered to make her look thinner. What. . . ? To be honest I can barely tell them apart in this photo but as long as she’s “stunned” this will make headlines around the world, or at least on the talk show circuit, and I could not possibly care less. Can you tell these two images apart? Or at least enough to be “stunned”!

As a fashion photographer I get asked this question so many times I could just cry! “Do you alter images of models?” And my answer is “YES I DO. . . . !” Who cares! This story is so boring that I have to use CAPS to make my point a little more interesting.

I have altered and retouched so many images over the past five years that I can now classify my self as an expert fix-er-upper. It’s not like I take bad pictures its because models show up for a job hung over, tired from jet lag or whatever and they need some work done that makeup can’t hide. People are not perfect, they have scars, blemishes, unsightly tattoo’s, bags under their eyes, tan lines, gross piercings and most of the time they reek like cigarettes. I mean seriously. Nobody looks like Halle Berry when they wake up in the morning. Unfortunately! Models look great in ads but there was work done behind the scenes.

Fashion is a business that’s all about beauty and selling products and the product and the image that surrounds it has to be presented in the best way possible. You don’t have to be an MIT graduate to understand this.

I would love to be shocked and stunned so that I can make headline news around the world every time my picture was taken and the photographer me me look better than I am in real life. I can hear myself now, . . “That bastard made me look good. I hate him. . . !”

Jim

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