[Thanks tOP]
Karen Bjornson, Portrait by (c)Timothy Greenfield-Sandersarticle, pictures.
I think these photos and women are gorgeous. And it's great to get some high-profile exhibition, fashion-related, which shies away from the super-hyper-anti-reality mind-set of the glossy magazine world.
(Man, what a woman!)I should be clear: what I personally object to about over-photoshopping is not the "message it sends to women", it is a bit broader: the disconnection from reality. The implied lack of ability to see beauty not just in women, but in anything, unless it has been retouched to within an inch of its digital life, every little tiny perceived flaw removed.
TTL said:
I agree, Karen Bjornson looks so charismatic and beautiful here.Thank you for this. I have tattooed the URL of your blog on my arm, under the anchor.
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In fact, Karen Bjornson ('Björnson'? I wonder) reminds me of a woman of about the same age and beauty, I met in the neighborhood once, asking me for directions. Afterwards I kicked myself for having been too stunned to think of giving her a compliment.
A beautiful portrait. I have added your blog to my sidebar section titled "Photography Sites"
ReplyDeleteI agree.
ReplyDeleteImage correction techniques, whether they are in-camera masking, or darkroom work in B&W or color, - or Photoshop should be used for a specific use only.
My personal (very personal) feeling on this is that if a portrait is shot, leave it the hell alone. Show the image and the person the way they are.
Running everything through Photoshop is like attempting to remove all of the freckels on the face of Morgan Freeman.
Show the person you photographed, not the image of what you want them to be.
SO BEAUTIFUL..and REFRESHING! Thank you for sharing this article and pics w/us! LOVE that! :-)
ReplyDeleteI agree, Karen Bjornson looks so charismatic and beautiful here.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this. I have tattooed the URL of your blog on my arm, under the anchor.
> Thank you for this. I have tattooed the URL of your blog on my arm, under the anchor.
ReplyDeleteNoooooo !!!
Incredible !!!!
Hahahaha !!!!
I think this sentence IS art.
Yes, excellent. Thanks, dude.
ReplyDeleteWas there space between the anchor and the heart with "Mom" in it?
In fact, Karen Bjornson ('Björnson'? I wonder) reminds me of a woman of about the same age and beauty, I met in the neighborhood once, asking me for directions. Afterwards I kicked myself for having been too stunned to think of giving her a compliment.
ReplyDeleteCome on, ttl is so funny because it makes a parody of what Hin Man wrote, and it comes quite later, and out of context, somehow unexpectedly and with a right timing.
ReplyDeleteAlone, it's far not that funny any more.
Hmm, I just thought it was an excellent compliment!
ReplyDeleteI don't really see the relation to Hin Man's comment, if you mean in this thread.
Well, it IS an excellent compliment indeed. :-)
ReplyDelete> I don't really see the relation to Hin Man's comment, if you mean in this thread.
Really ? That's fun. Semms humour is really personal, and that's good.
For me, it is nearly the same text
- the portrait is beautiful
- I have added your address somewhere.
For me ttl's message takes sense as a parody of the first one.
TTL, now that we have spent so much energy analysing your sentence, please tell us what was in your head.
Don't get me wrong, I *did* think it's funny.
ReplyDeleteTTL, now that we have spent so much energy analysing your sentence, please tell us what was in your head.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, Anna. The inspiration to the sentence came from Hin Man's comment. But I didn't mean to parody Hin Man, but rather this “I have added/friended you” culture in general.
Background: I have been using the Internet since 1985. For the first 10 years up until 1995 we Internet users were considered complete nerds and weirdos. Not capable of normal socializing. (A bit like LARP people today).
From this perspective, the whole blogging phenomenon is a relatively recent development. And it is slightly amusing to me how normal adult people are now “adding”, “friending”, “following” and what not each other.
In fact, it reminds me a little of how little girls add their friends into their cute little address books (or used to, I'm sure that is all Internet-based nowadays).
To counter this image, I wondered how would a macho guy -- someone who's been around -- “add” a blog? :-) I couldn't come up with anything more macho than the image of a tattooed anchor. So there ... :-)
However, it was obviously also meant as a compliment to Eo. Especially as he posted the first image of an adult woman in quite awhile.
RCMEDIA stated the obvious...
ReplyDelete"Image correction techniques, whether they are in-camera masking, or darkroom work in B&W or color, - or Photoshop should be used for a specific use only."
They are today. The specific use being to LIE to the masses. :-(
"Running everything through Photoshop is like attempting to remove all of the freckels on the face of Morgan Freeman."
[heh] I had never noticed before that Morgan Freeman was a redhead. ;-)
"Show the person you photographed, not the image of what you want them to be."
Damn right! Nowadays, any no-talent with a computer and Photoshop feels they no more need to know how to draw, "since this gives so much more realistic results". Modifying a photo that still looks like a photo makes them feel skilled...
I myself would crop, remove dust/scratches, or correct exposure or red eyes, but that's about it for what I consider a true photo. It's just about correcting artificial technical details, about "un-modifying" the photo. For instance, red eyes is a flash artefact, people don't look like that unless a camera is around.
I have this "fetish" for natural, unposed photos. Of NORMAL people. I just want my photos to show them the way I see them in real life! (Pretty please?)
TC,
You and me both, [Girl] ;-)
Authenticity is becoming such a rare treasure these days.
It SO saddens me to hear that many Asian girls are having their eyes surgically "un-slanted", because people in their countries feel "it's prettier that way". :-(
What about your SOULS, ladies? Are you nothing but a mass-consumption product, all the way to your very faces and bodies?
(sigh) It's all a metaphor for people's fear of existing by themselves.
Anna:
"I think this sentence IS art."
Yep. I reckon it is! :-)
"Alone, it's far not that funny any more."
Ah, I'll have to disagree with you there. "This baby is its own sentence!" ;-)
"TTL, now that we have spent so much energy analysing your sentence, please tell us what was in your head."
Uhm... Are you SURE you want a precise description of a talking smoking chimpanzee's brain?
Unless that's a Bonobo there...
TTL puffed a smoke ring...
"And it is slightly amusing to me how normal adult people are now “adding”, “friending”, “following” and what not each other."
Not to mention "tagging" and "poking".
Dang, whatever happened to respecting one's personal space?
"Why do you keep touching me?" - (Knight unit in Warcraft II, if you keep repeatedly clicking on him without issuing any commands.)
Made even more amusing today, with the WoW community phenomenon:
"My Liege? Your command? YES? WHAT IS IT?!?
- You have been tagged. And poked. And friended. And liked. My name is Elmyra.
- Why do you keep touching me, wench?!? HAVE AT THEE!"
"Especially as he posted the first image of an adult woman in quite awhile."
Come on, haven't you seen the Requirements Compliance Statement? They're ALL adults! ;-)