I do my own retouching which is generally fairly light. Soften but not
eliminate wrinkles, eliminate temporary blemishes like cuts and pimples,
accentuate the eyes a bit. I sharpen around the eyes, lips and nostrils
and may blur the skin a bit elsewhere... but not too much. I try to
make them look good by taking off a few years but I don't try to change
their appearance in any fundamental way. The young lady you see here
has probably had a bit more wrinkle smoothing than most but not a great
deal. Most people guess that she's about 35. She was 51 when this shot
was taken. Her skin is still just a little bit red but that's pretty
much her normal complexion. As it is she looks very good but still
looks very much like her self. And, of course, it helps to have good
starting material :-)
<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/personals01.php>
I'm not familiar with the retouching forum of which you speak but your
comments lead me to believe I'm probably not much interested in what's
going on there. I don't generally go for the magazine cover fashion
model look with featureless skin.
Chuck Norcutt
Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
> I suppose this is for the folks on the list who take portraits,
> bridal shots, etc., and convince people to give them money in return
> for prints. <wink> I keep seeing references among the high and
> mighty to their "retouchers." My assumption is that these retouchers
> are Photoshop pros whose specialty is making good shots look
> stunning, or making ugly people look pretty. <g> There's a retouching
> forum on DeePee, and I've seen a lot of examples, but I don't know if
> these people are pros or not. I'm guessing not so many, but some.
>
> At any rate, some of what I see is pretty amazing, but at the same
> time underwhelming. I suppose I'm an unreconstructed old faert, but I
> like my portraits to be fiddled with minimally so that the person in
> the portrait looks like the person of whom the portrait was made.
> Perhaps in an, ah, different light that customarily seen, but
> still . . .
>
> So, how important are these retouchers? Are they necessary to
> facilitate customer satisfaction, that is, to keep the mother of the
> bride from doing bodily harm to the photographer? Do any of our folks
> use them? Chuck? AG?
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bwp33.com
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