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  • I think she was beautiful before all of that editing

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  • Hey guys, also consider that Dove and that sexist deodorant brand Linx are owned by the SAME company. Two different branches obviously, but the same company nonetheless. We have good advertisements like this for Dove (that woman does look amazing after the hair and make up, but the photoshop was clearly not necessary, I can see that was the point) and then there games on the Linx website called "wash the mud of Kristy", and "Kristy" is a Playboy babe.

    No wonder our self-esteem is distorted.

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  • it's the photographer's, make up artist's and hair stylist's jobs to make people look good.

  • This video's been reposted a dozen times, this was not for a wedding photographer, it was for a fashion shoot. COMPLETELY different story. Weather you like it or not for fashion is up to you, but it CAN NOT be equated to wedding photography. Wedding photographer's don't do anything anywhere near this.

  • @evanvideo I do for all my clients.

  • @asheebee30 well... in my opinion your clients are lucky then! lol. But they're not being forced to do it or anything, they agree or disagree in the contract. I just get annoyed with these videos that act like people are being forced into getting made up, "Would You Let Your Wedding Photographer Do This?" should be re-named, "This is what you can have your wedding photography team do for you"

  • @Mthaophoto same here, i do as little retouching as possible.. only what is needed.

    Im sure this was done to an extreme just to prove a point

  • I am a photographer, and I do not go this extreme for retouching on my clients, unless they request for it. However, for any commercial photographers they might go extreme like this for magazines, billboards, etc., but most photographers do not go this dramatic. Retouching is a lot of work, so I tried to avoid to do as much retouching on ppl's face as possible.

  • FAKE PEOPLE FOR FAKE MAGAZINES ABOUT FAKE LIVES...

  • i'd do her anyway

  • If my Fiance was that bad looking without make up I'd say go right ahead

  • @UFClova sounds like you definately got the message from this advert.

  • omg someone need to do something bout that jaw line

  • The eyes are uneven omg wut.

  • I liked this video it was really nice.

  • As you all already had imagine, the site no longer exist.

  • what has the title to do with the video message? @BarbaraJaneP 100% correct meaning of this ad is : beauty can be an illusion

  • What the.......WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS DO NONE OF THIS!!!!! If you knew anything about photography you would know alterations like this happen in the fashion and marketing industry where they'll do almost anything to sell a product. Wedding photographers are there to capture the beauty of WHAT IS. This video just shows how far out of reality companies will go to get you emotionally attached to their products by giving you an extreme goal of perfection that REALLY, no one will ever reach

  • I <3 DOVE!!!

  • There's a reason this guy has only uploaded one video in his life.

  • They didnt edit much, but people back then wore makeup. It hasnt changed much in my opinion.

  • this is pathetic. you don't love yourself to do this to yourself. why try to be what your not. coz when people see you in person, its your face, the enhancements will not exist there. to do this is to be ashamed of who you are and what you have. coz this program can make you look good only in one pic, not real life. be proud of who you are.

  • @ishimou21 She let this be done because she was paid. They probably made up the blemishes she started with, too.

  • Certainly not, because this is not a wedding photography.

  • Ok. Well now I'm convinced I COULD have been a model!!! Damn, and I paid that college tuition with loans!

  • THIS LOOKS SHOPPED

  • wow

  • who cares if its not about a wedding! its awesome!

    

  • overly dramatic and has nothing to do with wedding photography.. this was made only to make people think this happens all the time, just like how smoking commercials make everything overly dramatic and depressing

  • wow 

  • I'd PAY EXTRA my wedding photographer to do this!!!

  • nothing to do with weddings..... you fail

  • we ( girls) always see this at health class thumbs up if u did

  • this is nothing to do with weddings this was an anti-beauty add for teens in 2008 look it up online jesus how something that was suppose to be good could be turned into something so stupid ill never understand

  • Wow! I have been told that I do not look anything like myself when my photo has been taken with my make-up and hair done each and every day! It makes me feel really good. I also have days that I wear no makeup at all and feel good too. I am shocked at the extent that photography has gone on ads for beauty ads today. No wonder there is such an alarming rate of young women with anorexia nervosa.

  • I think she looked better before the retouch. :)

  • They kinda purposely overdid it. I'm a professional retoucher, its very rare to see something like this. This kinda stuff is actually really frowned upon. The best retouchers are the ones that look like they weren't even there.

  • WTF...WTF

    Gods gunna punish you when you parish...he's gunna scan your memories and throw you to the wolves

  • WTF...WTF

  • I am glad to see that I am not the only one who was confused by the non-wedding theme of this wedding titled video. It looks to me that this is to show people that there are 0% of people who look like the cartoon characters on billboards.

  • I dont understand the point of this >.<

  • All digital photos NEED to be retouched. they capture too much detail, simple fact.. In the film days some of the blemishes etc were not captured because of the quality of film. Calm Down.

  • DERP FACE!

  • umm ok wow just. . . wow

  • creepy...

  • I like this!

  • So many photographers are too far up their own arse now.  Just because they have a digital SLR they think they're good.

  • @airscrew1 Seriously. Pisses me off.

  • @MandeeSparkle Good, I try my best.

  • this is no conection with wedding photografiers....I am that...but this is no reason....

  • No, wedding photographers don't go this far. We'd be out of business if we did.

  • Good video - bad and misleading title.

  • thats a whole new person, raised her head and everything

  • hell yea!

  • Wie gut das sich nicht auch noch die Männer schminken...

  • Ugly bastard

  • Okay guys, get over the outrage over the guy using the Dove ad and recognize that this is, sadly, what too many clients are expecting of us as professional photographers today. They see this artificial beauty treatment and think that

    's what photos are for, not capturing them as they really are but remaking them into an ideal image that they never were.

  • I think this should be illegal! This was an advertisment made by Dove. The wedding photographer husing this to advertise his work is stealing and infringing on copyright. How about you make your own advertisement!? Also, this, as many people are saying, has nothing to do with wedding photography. Yes, as I wedding photographer I will touch up photographs so that the Bride feels gorgeous and loves her pictures, but I sure never would go to this extent. Wrong context and thievery!

  • No

  • wow, fucking amazing computers these days :D

  • @CarlislesVampire  What year are you from, 1925?

  • @xXXH4RR15XXx No, 1997.

  • @xXXH4RR15XXx 1925 sounds like a cool year. Keyword is SOUNDS.

  • lol i have done something like this and it came out awesome. Never was it shown on a billboard on the streets though ahha.

  • she looked a lot better b4 eny ov that crap

  • I've edited photos to that extent for my calendars and other specific shoots. I have never edited a WEDDING like that. You'd have to alter every photo you took! And no, that's not Photoshop, it's a specific program just for portraits.

  • @mnp13

    Called what?

  • Welcome to the world of "Photoshoping", man, its been around for ages now.

  • photoshop FTW!

  • couldn't figure out what this has to do with wedding photography, until i realized that dove made a video that illustrates how fake fashion ads can be, and some other company who has nothing to do with dove, is using the video to link to them. kind of lame!!!

  • Awesome vid! 

  • She would have been pretty right from the start if she'd smiled...

  • To far.

  • Whole new person.

    Dirty world.

  • what program was that? I didn't recognize it as photoshop. Anyone can tell me exactly?

  • This has nothing to do with wedding photography. I am also a wedding photographer. What you have here is a fashion shoot. And that is a very different type of photography and photo editing. They are creating an illusion to sell you stuff. A wedding photographer is recording a significent event in your life. They will retouch blemishes, but to change an entire face is pointless.

    This is an ad that was made to introduce young people into the concept that beauty can be an illusion.

  • @BarbaraJaneP So true I'm also a wedding photographer and I get so many clients now asking me to do this sort of thing because they saw this ad... Everyone forgets what the meaning of this ad is all they see is "wow they can make me pretty..." When the whole point of photographing the day is to remember how it was.

  • @BarbaraJaneP Thank you for making that clarification for those of us who DO real wedding photography and don't manipulate our pictures like this. This is made to sell something.

  • first off this has nothing to do with weddings...and even then there is a major difference between basic photo re-touching/enhancements and this...most photographers limit it to pimple removal, minor wrinkle reduction, and eye enhancements.

  • Who gives a rats ass what they do to an image... Far out! It's all for advirtisment and money, if you hate it so much, just don't buy the stuff they're selling.

  • outstanding. i'll watch it again.

  • She still looks like a wild horse in the Colorda's plains...

  • @jajapani

    lol

  • this was for a fashion show...not a wedding...

  • laura longneck

  • she looks hot!

  • For commercials use, YES, this is useable. But Wedding photos just don't go that far

  • I rather not comment on this. But as a wedding photographer you don't go that far. Do yourself a favour replace this video as it is irrelevant

  • If anyone had actually noticed this is was a campain vid for dove natural beauty.. nothing to do with wedding photography, and ErinCady1042 is right there is a huge difference between this and simple editing..

  • Is that a real software program? Doesn't look like photoshop, and the "edits" are very easily applied- I think it might be a mock up for the ad.

  • What a load of shit

    What a bad ad.

    I am wedding photographer, that use to shoot beauty & fashion for magazines.

    The mags & commercail clients are into this sort of crap not wedding photographers.

    Get it right man or the dove

  • awesome video

  • A professional wedding photographer does what the customer wants and is will to pay for. There is time and labor involved with high end professional retouching. So he wouldn't automatically do it unless the customer specifies it and is willing to pay for , to which implies a understanding between both parties. If you research their galleries you will already know what kind of work to expect.

  • LOL that isent a human being anymore, but fun to see !! :O)

  • Compare oranges with oranges, not with apples. We are talking about Fashion/Beauty editing, not wedding photography editing.

  • -- At exactly 0:32 when they put her hair up, for few seconds or so she looks a bit like Elisha Cuthbert (as Kim Bauer in TV's "24," in the MOVIE: "The Quiet," & in the MOVIE: "The Girl Next Door" )

  • This is actually advert for Dove, title is wrong

  • What software are they using? Can some one tell me....

  • she's not the same person anymore. she was stunning before the edit. :( ii'd never alter someone to look like a completely different person. sad.

  • i would love a photographer like this :) oh get a life down below i think it is fabulous Christ who doesn't want to look your best ?? wedding photos hmm well come on most men want a homely girl for their wife thats true ..they like the homely girl to bring up children for them sort of like a breeder and plus homely girls dont get to know what bazteds most men are but good looking girls always are hit on by married men so guys know they couldn't get away with that much :)

  • @oliviamulgrew i concur!

  • Personally, I think you have posted this video with this particular title to traffic for your website (in the description).

    This video is part of a Dove Evolution campaign for real beauty.

  • hell no if a photographer did that to my wedding photos i would suew the pants off them.. fuck why does everyone have to look like perfect is being literally perfect doesn't everyone know that IMPERFECT IS THE NEW PERFECT... and that imperfections make us perfect the way we r..

  • I´m wedding and advertising photographer, and I follow the client´s desire, but there´s a good sense when we need to apply so many changes and them put my name on as a photographer...but the video is great. Trust me girl or boy you don´t need this...just some adjusts...lol

  • yea, this is crazy, i'm a portrait photographer and i edit my photos, but the most extreme thing i do is change the color and stylize the photos , sometimes i will soften/defuse the skin, or fix a stray hair, but anybody paying for photos wants photos of them, not someone else, if it's a glamour shoot then ofcourse there will be a tad bit more editing, but it's never this extreme!

  • WOW

  • Wow...this video was made by the dove soap company to show how our perception of beauty is scued because all these advertisements alter the people so much...this has absolutely nothing to do with weddings or products/services...

  • SHIT I WOULD SHE LOOKS HOTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!

  • She was prettier before the makeover.

  • i used to be a wedding photographer, but i NEVER DID SOMETHING LIKE THAT. most wedding photographers might like take out a giant zit, but thats pretty much it.

  • I don't know ANY WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER that DOES THIS!!! Give me a BREAK!! This is a FASHION SHOOT where she is hired as a MODEL to represent a product and that's what they are directed to do for the AD!! No photographer goes to these lengths for editing for a client shoot!! I am one... HUGE difference between adjust the exposure slightly and removing a blemish!

    I am ALL for women/girls loving who they ARE which is the intent of Dove here! YOU making this against wedding photographers is a JOKE!!

  • Amazing....

  • what does this have to do with weddings?

  • @SDPfoto because thats a wedding photo and he used it for a poster

  • @jonjxc it looks like a dove ad

  • Listen up whiners: there is a waaaaaaaaay bigger difference between the before/after makeup/hair treatment than there is between that and the touched up version. The lions share of the change happened in reality. The touching up enhanced what's already mostly there. Take another look. You think brides at the alter look like they do when they wake up that morning? No, so which is more "fake"? Just something to think about.

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  • Remember the days before Photoshop?

    It would be so nice if photographers everywhere could spend more time shooting the perfect photo and less time editing a photo to perfection.

    I recommend joining the face book page: All women are beautiful on the outside!

  • @SDPfoto

    No... not the fat overweight ones.... those arent. :(

  • What about the song??? who is it???

  • This has got nothing to do with wedding photography at all this was part of a Dove campaign to create awareness of what fashion mags do to their pictures before they get published. Search for Dove evolution :D

  • I think she looks stunning, it certainly brought out the beauty of the woman, she is beautiful, edited or not, i'm sure any woman would feel 1000x times prettier having a photo like this.

  • this has nothing to do with wedding photography! I'm a wedding photographer and I, like others I see commenting, just take out blemishes or minor adjustments like that. Seriously, nothing to do with wedding photography - it's about capturing the happy couple, not changing their faces!

  • This is sad....

  • To quote "Gia": ...the magazine doesn't come with a label that says, "Caution: This is a lie. Nobody looks like this." Not even you.

  • for the love of god, SMILE. your getting a freekin makeover

  • I totally agree with ErinCady1042, this completely beyond what us wedding photogs do. I too remove some blemishes and lighten and darken areas, just like Ansel did with his dodging and burning in the wet darkroom. This is certainly NOT what a wedding photog does. Michael Hacker Photography

  • she's perfect even without make up

  • wow

  • classic example of OVER KILL! yeeesh

  • this shows exactly how unreal our world has become. nice video

  • I actually like the natural look; maybe some of the skin blemishes disappearing was a good thing, but overall, I was turned off by the final product especially when her neck was distorted.

    I know many disagree with me, but I am overwhelmingly disgusted by the whole "anorexic" look being embraced. Embracing the look of anorexia is more of a sickness than anorexia itself. More parents have to instill self-esteem into their kids for this to change

  • @GATFOCT great comment, i agree 100% im a photographer & i may remove a small blemish or adjust brightness & contrast, and make some black & white versions but i hate over edited photos, especially portraits/human subjects, i like natural photos.

  • I am a Photographer and Photo Processer. I do this for almost all of my clients, the ones that can afford it that is. I hear people bitching about stuff like this, but when it comes time for their photos they are all on board. I understand the problems that come with extreme processing, they are just not big enough for me to care about. I do what the client wants, and I do it well.

  • this is a dove commercial and has nothing to do with wedding photography or editing. pure infringement to promote your business... shameful

  • @trishiag I do the same with G-rated shock value.

  • @theboombody what do you mean? you lie to clients to get business?

  • @trishiag Very little is off limits when it comes to G-rated Shock Value. Lies certainly aren't off limits. Actually R-rated Shock Value is far more limiting than G-rated Shock Value.

  • only if i looked the same...and coz im a cryer so after we say I DO my make up would be shot

  • HELLS YEA!

  • YEP - becasue ou trphotographer had a WRONG setting- and NOT ONE PICTURE came out - a few looked like we were in a cave!!!! FORTUNATELY - we had also planned for everybody to take their own pictures - and passed out 50 of those cameras in a box!!! Those turned out to be the only pictures we have - and MANY were sent to us!!!!!

  • Awesome video!

  • Um Yea I do wedding photography and am an Adv. photoshop user.. But I would NEVER go to this extent Blemishes correcting lighting is one thing but to actually alter features to a point beyond recognition .. I think you are mistaking this for commercial and magazine work... not really wedding styles UNLESS. the couple has requested extensive work to be done. IMOP that is up to them who are you to tell them they cant or they are wrong.. Theyre the one's living with the images not anyone else.

  • I find this to be useless, I mean why does anyone use an ugly broad like this in the first place only to retouch the hell out her.

    This should have been titled; "how stupid can a photographer be for using an ugly ho's, Part I."

  • @xsanter

    Because most models actually look like her before a shoot!

    So how many beauties did you have had to photographer since aparently have access to beauties.

  • Thats not photoshop editing. Can anyone tell me the application the do the remodeling in?

  • This looks like it could be ADOBE LIGHTROOM. It is a more suitable software for high-end photography editing.

  • No way you can do that in Lightroom, that is photoshop. LR is used to touchup pictures, fix lighting, exposure, tones, curves, cropping etc, but not to actually alter the picture in the ways shown in this vid. I know this because I use LR everyday

  • I've actually been to alot of photo shoots for modeling and such, and what suprised me the most was actually how normal most all models are in looks. nothing really stands out, and even the pictures show the same thing i see, yet when we take our photos and get them ready for magazines and other ads, half the time i dont even recognize the model in the picture of the after shots because so much touch up has been done. and these are models i ate with and hung out with for days.

  • The entire point is that this isn't how wedding photography is done but it is how fashion photography is done. If we expect our wedding pictures to be realistic why shouldn't we expect images used for advertising?

  • "What does it have to do with wedding photography?" Are you kidding me? Have you seen the whole process all the brides go through for the shots? Is amazing! Sometimes they just look completely different to the real person! And not just the make up, but also the touchups sometimes is just ridiculous, not a single wrinkle, skin looks like plastic, if at open sky the sky is as blue as blue can get (impossible!) Trust me, no bride would like the whole set of before and after shots.

  • the only good use for this is on your school pictures when you want your massive amounts of acne off your face.

  • This is a commercial.....in real life touchups just correct little things, jesus.

  • I love photoshop....love how they make already an attractive woman look so ugly.

  • this was a commercial not a wedding photographer

  • What this has to do with wedding photography is completely and utterly beyond me. Like ErinCady1042 said, the most I do is remove the occasional pimple for my wedding editing. I don't know of ANY wedding photographers who perform this level of digital reconstructive surgery.

    From what I can tell, the copying of this Dove video is just cheap propaganda for your "website". Quit scaring brides and leave wedding consulting to the professionals.

  • Um, what does wedding photographer have anything to do with this?

  • wow different much? lol