I agree with Ken and Moose.
In addition to what he and Moose said, it is extremely common, in fact I
would estimate that it happens about 80% of the time, while talking with
potential or repeat clients (moms), *they* are the people bringing up
the idea of head swapping, and *they* are the first to suggest that if
everyone's great in an image, except for one subject, please, please,
swap heads, repair closed eyeballs, remove rabbit ears behind heads,
spills off of clothes, food or snot off of faces. Just do it, don't even
show them the image prior to "fixing" it.
This is the standard they've come to expect, they know what can be done,
and ask for it ahead of time. I don't blame them, and have done the
same, upon occasion, with my own family while shooting them in a large
group.
This isn't something I do for every image, obviously. This is something
that is done for that one large posed portrait the growing group of
grand-kids give their grandparents every year for Christmas, etc.
There is a time and a place for all types of editing. :-)
It cannot be deceitful if the client asked for it to be done in the
first place.
Candace
On 1/24/12 9:57 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> Deceit? No way! Doesn't matter if the client knows heads were swapped or
> not. We're not talking about news shots, but portraits. If it's deceitful
> to swap a head or eyeball, then it would be deceitful to do any editing.
> It's not like were sucking 200 pounds off the person or taking an 80 year
> old and giving them the wrinkles of an 8 year old.
>
> AG
>
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