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Old 21-06-2008   #1
Yanka
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Dislike of High Quality and Digital Images

I know it's a weird topic to start, but I hope I'm not the only who has noticed this. Does anyone else think that since the onset of digital photography and especially those awful super high quality images, everyone's started looking a lot worse?
If you look at magazines from before 2000-2003, people looked nice - good, natural complexions, healthy tan, just generally likable and look-able. Nowdays, everyone's skin looks really washed out / dying / transparent / zombi. And those HQ images! When I look through some of the images from shows / events, I notice every single wrinkle / blemish / uneven colour, it's not even funny.
I used to think 'aha, they age just like normal people' until I realised even Dacota Fanning has mimical wrinkles in those HQ images, which I'm sure are unnoticable in real life. This is just wrong wrong wrong. Who really needs those? Im so paranoid about digital / HQ images, i never let myself get photographed anymore. Any opinions, especially from models/ photographers.