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'Free' makeover for Kathy by Jessica at the MAC store in Yorkdale mall on August 25, 2007.
Photo by Daniel Ho.
A Flickr friend recently posted some before-and-after images on her stream. She is immensely talented, and it was interesting and reassuring to see some of her stuff more or less out of the camera, before conversion into the immaculate images she posts in the normal course of things.
I had been thinking about the kind of work I put into photos, taking the mechanical view of what the camera sees and wrestling it into something a little more like what comes to the eye. For me, at least at this point, a picture is a personal version of the world beyond - a mix of unadorned photography and wash-and-rinse painting. The balance, and you can see some of my struggling here, is between clarity and color on the one hand, and native detail on the other.
I don't think I'll do this often. It's kind of like taking off my pants in public, only with much less butt. Also, I'm a Kludge-style Photoshopper, by which I mean I don't really know how to use the thing, so if something doesn't fit the way I want I mostly just clang on it until it's close enough. So I'm not sure how much value there might be in looking at the pre and the post. Still, here's a glimpse at one recent posting: the finished Dream Deferred, shot last summer through the dirty window of a Jersey Transit commuter train, is here.
I am having to put on makeup in order to convince this girl with dreadlocks to take the photo. As you can see from my grin, it was much worth it!
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