There is a trend in the world of photography where every family photo looks like an airbrush threw up on it.
Just because Photoshop can give the flawless skin of the magazine model doesn't mean you should let it.

Point in case is baby pictures. Listen people babies are gorgeous they are are practically perfect in every way. There should be little to NO touch up work on them. Sure you might need to erase a booger there and pimple here but other than that STEP AWAY from the photoshop.

This trend is growing as we speak and a firmly believe we need to nip it in the butt.

let's see some examples shall we?

I took this picture of Baby B a few weeks ago at Big Birds softball game.

this picture is fine just how it is but I do see some things I want to change if I am going to put it in a frame or something.

First Baby B had scratched himself (as babies do) on the neck and well I just don't want that there so lets erase that. Then there are some small boogies at the nose area. Not a lot just a little but lets get rid of those too. To bring it all together let's crop the picture closer and sharpen (you should always lightly sharpen after you crop an image. let's see what we got.

There, it still looks like the same kid and he still looks normal and cute and fantastic.

But what happens when photoshop eats your senses and you become a photoshop addict and start running every action/editing tool you have on the poor kid (which is a sad trend I see happening more and more in the world of photography)

Let's take a look.....prepare yourselves.

What the fuck happen to Baby B? Sure he has that "angely glow" but he also looks like an alien. No child in the world looks that smooth in real person and trust me babies are smooth to begin with but someone draw the line somewhere literally.

We ran the poor thing through a skin smoother, brightened the eyes, dodge the hair and then topped it off with an all around glow for good luck.

WTF!!!!!

But this is sadly the road many photographers go down and even worse they get support to do so by parents who love this look...DON'T LOVE THIS LOOK PARENTS!!!

This is my warning.

"If it takes more than three steps to make the SOOC picture look good on a baby then you just have a bad picture.....Step Away From The Photoshop"

this should be your moto from here on out. repeat it often.