Found this not so amazing-to-me article:
Australian Personal Trainer Debunks Those Infuriating ‘Before And After’ Weight Loss Pictures
http://www.businessinsider.com/before-and-after-weight-loss-exposed-2013-8
and this is her product:
What a huge difference wearing the correct sized clothes, lighting and posing make, eh? What a transformation! That article links to this second one:
Seduced by the Illusion: The Truth About Transformation Photos
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-dixon/weight-loss-secrets_b_3643898.html?ncid=wsc-dl-cards-readmore%3Dedlinkusaolp00000009
With these ‘amazing’ transformations:
I have tried, without much success, to convince my wife that any pictures of her that aren’t flattering are due to my inexperience as a photographer, not any inherent flaws in my subject (you can see a few pictures from before we got married here; in my opinion she is hotter now than she was back then, but she won’t let me document that). In the past I studied glamor photography quite intently, I still remember a lot of the ‘tricks’ to getting the best out of a model and I see many of those ‘tricks’ when I see a lot of these before and after pics, so it is nice to see a few people document the power of posing and lighting.
It is so easy to manipulate images _before_ Photoshop I think most people totally fail to appreciate the skills of a good photographer. Maybe these articles (and my tiny effort to promulgate them) will have some impact.
