Imperfections

if you want to hear me rant, just ask me about Photoshop. i have this theory that you shouldn't have to edit your pictures to make them more beautiful. Personally i think its the imperfection in a photo that make it beautiful. a photograph is meant to capture a moment, and going and erasing the blemishes or making the person look more tan isn't the moment, its an alteration of it.

I don't edit any of my photos which some photographers would frown upon. People swear by Photoshop and working "Photoshop magic" but i don't think that being able to work a computer program  says anything about your ability to take a photo. when i see pictures of models with perfect skin and perfect features, i always wonder what they really look like before someone goes crazy with the edits.  There is this awesome video online made by dove called Evolution which shows what a model goes through for the photo shoot, and then shows the drastic changes made in Photoshop. the end product looks almost nothing like the model in the beginning!

I do think some of the work that people can do in Photoshop is amazing, more than i could ever do, but i think of that as a different skill. Don't call yourself a photographer if you take your final product against your original and they look nothing alike. id call you a... wicked good photoshopper...

anyways, i kind of like the imperfections in a photo. I would never call any of my photos perfect, but that's simply because i don't think perfection would be as beautiful as the imperfections are. we all make mistakes

after all isn't that what a human is? a mistake maker?

lauren!

her hair looks funny and im sure i could fix it but this is what i got!

who would want to change one single thing about this adorable little baby face!?