annsann wrote, "All of you guys seem to think that what *that* woman
didn't like about the picture was (just) the
wrinkles. But what I would be more displeased with from a vanity point
of view is the heaviness in the neck. I think cropping a lot around her
very animated face with only the slightest bit of retin-a treatment
would please her a lot more.
Good point/view. I was just looking at the improvement in the wrinkles.
Someone else commented on the appearance of overdone pancake makeup.
These points reminded me of when I was doing portraits years ago. I would
have loved to have had the PC tools for improving photos. But back then, I
think a computer was called an abacus. ; ) Our studio had an 'artist' who
oil colored the quality portraits, and I now remember thinking that she
made people look too unnatural. I was 20 or so with a heavy 4:00 shadow,
and she made a portrait of me look so smooth skinned that I could have been
13 or 14. My parents, nor my girl friend, wanted the finished work because
it was not pleasing to them. I imagine you're very right about the amount
of softening and cropping. I'll have to pay attention to these sentiments
when I start experimenting with a digital darkroom.
K.
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