While in the hospital with our perfect new baby, we were given a catalogue for a photographer that takes baby pictures. One of the services offered is creepy beauty-magazine-like, skin smoothing, blemish removing, photo retouching.
Just in case your baby wasn’t already born with a body-image problem.
This disturbs me.
Extremely disturbing indeed. We’ll have our first baby in less than a month, in Québec-City. The only camera that comes near our baby is mine, and if somebody dares approaching us with such an offer, I’ll make a counter-offer to do the same to their face. No computer will be harmed in the process, and I don’t think the before/after sequence will be the same, though. Hospitals should not let such crap in.
That’s pretty sick. I would like to repost this photo in a photography forum that I am part of on flickr. (http://flickr.com/groups/strobist/) Please let me know if that is a problem.
Alex: Sure – just link back to the post for attribution.
I blogged about MediaChance Orbis Luminum which doesn’t do exactly that, but it lets you enhance your photos in more subtle ways.
You know, you’re the exception not the rule. I lose clients over NOT offering the retouches. I figure there’s some other arsehole out there perfectly willing to take their money and make their child look like a plastic dolly.