Time and again I find that I have to take my advanced Photoshop skills to task in order to fix the scabbed chin of a toddler, eczema on an infant, or to make a composite of the one frame out of 200 that a child was actually looking at the camera.

There has been a long-runny debate about the ethical implications of misrepresenting reality. While manipulating photos in the news and photojournalism world is strictly taboo, photo retouching gurus like Glenn Feron take the practice to an extreme degree. This guy could even make me look like I’m 30 pounds lighter, possess perfect skin and look fifteen percent smarter.

Concern with the distorted image of beauty that young girls are being bombarded with on a daily basis, Dove has launched a campaign that includes this video clip showing the evolution of a photo shoot from grunged-out model showing up for hair and make-up, through the retouching process all the way to a giant billboard. You will never look at reality the same way again.

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I had an idea about some infant images I wanted to try and Jack Newman proved to be the perfect candidate this evening.  Jack’s proud older sister Erika even made it into a frame while doing duty as my stand in for dialing in exposure values.

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Today’s shoot was downtown at the Bad Animals recording complex where I was making images for their website of Jamie Hunsdale, the newest Animal and no doubt the baddest.

Jamie and I are big fans of Joey Lawrence and wanted to go for a similar kind of edgy look. The images you see were captured with my Nikon D200 and my trusty 18mm-200mm DX VR telephoto zoom lens. One speedlight and my trusty 18mm-200mm DX VR telephoto zoom lens was used for the first two with natural light and the 50mm f/1.4 used for the third.

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