There is something amiss with the photo below. I’m not talking about the missing teeth on the left – that’s the right photo. The problem is the photo on the right.
Surely we have lost the plot when we start photohopping an eight-year-old’s gappy grin.
Arriving home from work yesterday, my excitement at finally receiving the boys’ school photos was quickly replaced by bewilderment. As I looked at the photos of our eldest, I thought – “I didn’t realise he still had teeth when the photos were taken”.
In the world of a primary school Mum, and one whose term two started with both kids down with chicken pox in week one, photo day in term one seemed a lifetime ago.
But then I looked at the family photo and his class photo – and there he was. Gappy McGapster (as he currently calls himself) in all his glory. At first, I thought they’d given us last year’s photo – but then I looked closer.
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I work with a beautiful lady who only has one eye. She was at a family christening recently and the mum of the baby called her in a panic 2 weeks after the event. The photographer had "fixed" her eye and photoshopped all the photos. The mum was mortified. My friend had a good laugh about it! 👁👁👁
I once dated a photographer ten years ago who did school photo work before moving into photojournalism. Even back then, he had requests to photoshop school photos and it often came from the parents making requests through the school. He actually hated doing it.