She Hated Me For This
Jan 31, 2019 21:22:32 #
I'm blessed with a drop dead gorgeous granddaughter that is also brilliant. Really! One day she announced to the family that she was going to enter a "beauty pageant".
The background is that the "Miss America" system is alive and well at entry levels. They lure young women with scholarships! In short, if she were one year older she would be parading on the stage in a bikini. Her age group did "athletic exercises".
Understand that my wife is an accomplished CPA professional and was in near apoplectic shock that her cherished granddaughter would do "such a thing". Me too.
How does this relate to "Post-Prepossessing Digital Images". I shot 4K video of her getting second place. She actually won real money! I thought she would like a freeze frame, printed and framed.
Dumb grandpa! I thought it would be fun to remove her braces. The disgusting reaction was, "Grandpa you Photoshoped me! Don't do that!"
She returned the printed and framed photograph for not being real!
In the spirit of "Post Processing Digital Images" here is the before and after:
The background is that the "Miss America" system is alive and well at entry levels. They lure young women with scholarships! In short, if she were one year older she would be parading on the stage in a bikini. Her age group did "athletic exercises".
Understand that my wife is an accomplished CPA professional and was in near apoplectic shock that her cherished granddaughter would do "such a thing". Me too.
How does this relate to "Post-Prepossessing Digital Images". I shot 4K video of her getting second place. She actually won real money! I thought she would like a freeze frame, printed and framed.
Dumb grandpa! I thought it would be fun to remove her braces. The disgusting reaction was, "Grandpa you Photoshoped me! Don't do that!"
She returned the printed and framed photograph for not being real!
In the spirit of "Post Processing Digital Images" here is the before and after:
Jan 31, 2019 21:40:53 #
Good work on removing the braces. You should have told her you were being proactive, since One day she will not be needing them.
Jan 31, 2019 21:41:56 #
NJFrank wrote:
Good work on removing the braces. You should have told her you were being proactive, since One day she will not be needing.
Jan 31, 2019 23:03:12 #
NJFrank wrote:
Good work on removing the braces. You should have told her you were being proactive, since One day she will not be needing them.
I did tell her that. She still insisted that Photoshop ruined the reality!
Feb 1, 2019 09:14:26 #
This is a fascinating story, and speaks to me of someone very comfortable in her own skin and very self-aware. I mentioned to Greg Huntsinger (about the portrait of his wife) that people (ok, women mostly) of "a certain age" don't always want to see a lot of years taken off, and in Greg's first topic, Ed Shapiro wrote about pro studio portraiture and the client's wishes.
Thanks for a thoughtful posting, Bruce. Since you did so much work with removing the other people, can you just re-apply the braces to #2?
Thanks for a thoughtful posting, Bruce. Since you did so much work with removing the other people, can you just re-apply the braces to #2?
Feb 1, 2019 10:37:01 #
"can you just re-apply the braces to #2?"
Yes. I did it with layers, so removed the braces layer. Reprinted, framed the picture and gave it to her mother. BTW she was awarded $1400 for prancing around on stage in fancy clothes. She had to sing too.
Yes. I did it with layers, so removed the braces layer. Reprinted, framed the picture and gave it to her mother. BTW she was awarded $1400 for prancing around on stage in fancy clothes. She had to sing too.
Feb 1, 2019 11:03:11 #
bsprague wrote:
Wow, fantastic!...she was awarded $1400 for prancing around on stage in fancy clothes. She had to sing too.
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