Information Contraband » Retouching http://informationcontraband.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:09:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Making Models Fatter in Photoshop http://informationcontraband.com/advertising/making-models-fatter-in-photoshop http://informationcontraband.com/advertising/making-models-fatter-in-photoshop#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:48:41 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=424 “The editor of Vogue has accused some of the world’s leading catwalk designers of pushing ever thinner models into fashion magazines despite widespread public concern over “size-zero” models and rising teenage anorexia.”

Go read the rest.

As long as the pendulum swings, I’ll have work.

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]]> http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/retouching-is-the-right-thing-to-do/feed 0 Grand Theft Lego Evolution Video http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/grand-theft-lego-evolution-video http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/grand-theft-lego-evolution-video#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 06:34:50 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=381 Click here. I’ll figure out how to do the direct embed later.

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]]> http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/grand-theft-lego-evolution-video/feed 1 Grand Theft Lego, Part 1 Behind the Scenes http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/grand-theft-lego-part-1-behind-the-scenes http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/grand-theft-lego-part-1-behind-the-scenes#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:17:55 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=310 HDR is all too often over-the-top, sort of illustrated looking. I’ve done it myself—there’s a strange pull to see how Three-Dee you can get those clouds to look. But it can also be more subtle, and that’s what we are shooting for in the Grand Theft Lego series. (Yes, there are more to come)

Partner in crime David Pahl shot twelve exposures of each element, and I merged three to five of each together so that I had complete control over the amount of light falling on every part of the shot.

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A little dodging, a lot of burning, some serious pounding on the color, and we got this:

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(click images for bigger versions)

Thanks to Jay Roth, James Pelz and Tom Pounders for all the help and ideas.

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  • March 19, 2009 — http://informationcontraband.com/?p=277 Interesting post over on theonlinephotographer about retouching and responsibility. I like Katrin Eismann’s solution to the problem (read the comments). What is your take on this issue?

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    You know who you are.

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    ]]>     http://informationcontraband.com/advertising/hey-my-favorite-agency-client-just-got-himself-a-british-accent/feed 2     ‘Real Beauty’ Pix Rumor Stopper http://informationcontraband.com/software/adobe-photoshop/doves-real-beauty-pix-rumor-stopper http://informationcontraband.com/software/adobe-photoshop/doves-real-beauty-pix-rumor-stopper#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 16:09:53 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=89 The rumor mill is gearing up to grind out all sorts of nasty stories about Unilever and the Dove ‘Real Beauty’ campaign. Retoucher Pascal Dangin’s comments were placed in the wrong context on the New Yorker website, and a bunch of people are jumping up and down claiming that the photos were retouched. (The New Yorker profile, by the way, is quite amusing. The writer, Lauren Collins, seems inexperienced, in love with Dangin, and gullible. “He has been known to work for days tinting a field of grass what he considers the most expressive shade of green.” Puh-leeze!

    The real story, parts one and two, is available on the AdAge website.

    Why do so many assume that the bad or unpleasant is the truth?

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