pictures

And then there's this article, where apparently H&M is photoshopping model heads onto digitally created bodies.
People have been airbrushing the hell out of fashion photos already, so while they were once real people wearing real clothes, this hasn't been the case in a very long while. The only thing i see wrong with this is the idea that they're trying to pass it off as real (females/social pressure/body issues aside here).  Photoshop is the devil.

Which brings us to the fact that i finally decided on a camera (a Canon Rebel EOS T3i, prolly bundled with a decent lens). At a recent holiday party (for the floor which my lab shares with another lab), we had to state what we wanted for Christmas. It took me a minute to get over my embarrassment at being the center of attention (i walked in late, and had no idea what was going on), but i said i wanted a camera and a passport. Everyone laughed, and i guess that IS a striking combination, but that's what i want. i'm just going to have to somehow make it happen. (Pony up the dough, cupcake, and just do it.) My parents are intensely against my getting a passport and it's already led to 3 arguments that ended only by my backing down, but this is getting ridiculous. Back to the camera; apparently i'm a Canon girl, for better or worse. The pictures are just prettier. Yes, the frames-per-second are slower, yes, there's chromatic aberration/fringing issues, i don't care.

Which brings us to a topic of the weekend: just because you can do it, that doesn't necessarily meant that you should(?).