Alessandra Ambrosio and Ana Beatriz Barros in GQ Magazine
Here’s a 2 in one treat: Alessandra Ambrosio and Ana Beatriz Barros team up in a photo-shoot for GQ Magazine.
Add a little shiny oil and a little Photoshop in the “Brazilian Top Models” recipe and tadaa!, you’ve got one hot(?) shoot.
More after the jump!
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I can’t really tell these two apart, but in the 1. pic the other looks like a giant b/c of the angle, almost like it’s two pics put together. I’m not a fan of these pics and the 2. is just off-putting, it’s the combination of pose, oil, clothes and face i think, b/c just having the legs open like that doesn’t normally make me cringe.
now dt u mention it, in d first pic, allesandra does look like a giant compared to ana beatriz. bad photoshopping i guess. in real life, i’m pretty sure ana beatriz is taller and bigger than allesandra who is a skinny minnie.
they’re both really hot. but in these pics they looks a bit odd(position wise).
They look like pictures from two separate photoshoots have been pasted together. In the third pic Ana looks twice bigger than Alessandra, perspective is way off. Body-wise they look good, but this photoshoot is horrible.
Photoshop disaster on the lose. You shouldn’t be able to tell that there is actually no pool or whatever there. Very bad work. And Alessandra – even though not my favorite model – has some very interesting features. I don’t like how they touched her face, to make it look softer or whatever. Thumbs down for this one.
(i will never ever understand the need to photoshop these extremely appreciated well paid models; if they are not good enough, who is?? just invent some androids that meet the stupid standards and that’s finale. or some plastic life sized dolls. perfect)
I like the photoshoot, I think she looks amazing.
(Btw, Why is everybody here a self-declared Photoshop expert? I wonder how many people here can do better than those who have made a career out of it…)
rant warning//
as someone who does alter photos for a magazine, it is irritating to see so many people b***h about their idea of quality editing. i doubt many people know the sheer number of hours it takes to alter a photo, pixel by pixel by pixel, and then have the boss come and say they want the model’s nose shrunk or her hips widened, and then have people make remarks like “that is so photoshopped,” well no duh, it is. EVERYTHING you see is edited, from commercials, to ads in the paper, to billboards.
this isn’t a revelation. i don’t know why people acting shocked or acting as if they just made the discovery of the 8th wonder of the world by pointing out shakira’s nose doesn’t really look like that.
i mean really, please, do better. i’d love to see someone take the original picture of this photoshoot, spend countless man hours altering it to your boss’ specifications while still trying to please the unpleasable disgruntled masses and make it look presentable.
//end rant.
I think you made a good point about the bosses. It’s not the person photoshopping who usually gets to make the decisions about what looks good and what doesn’t, what to cut and what to keep. It’s the person in charge, (I’m guessing the editor in chief of the magazine???) who makes these decisions. So lay off the photoshoppers, people. They just do what they’re told
And let’s be honest, this is what people want to see. If it weren’t, these companies would never be able to sell and wouldn’t make any money.
Look at the slew of comments about Beyonce’s stretch marks in that other recent post. But if they were photoshopped off, people would still have a problem…
I wanted to reply to both of you. But i won’t take the effort. You are right, everyone else is wrong and stupid.
It seems that you just did take the effort.
I only shared my opinion as you did. And you’re welcome to continue sharing yours. Not everything needs to be taken personally.
this isn’t a reply?
also my “rant” wasn’t in regard to you. i actually didn’t even see your post until i wondered about this random comment you just made and looked. i was directly commenting to what juliette wrote and what i’ve seen on this site as a whole.
don’t take everthing as an attack. people disagree. it happens.
yes, blame the bosses. i would like to add that my boss is an idiot. so…yea. lol. they approve everything and ask for changes. a picture isn’t going to make cover without approval, you know?
Tell me about it. My old boss (I’ve since quit) was like the clueless man ever. He wanted me, one person I should emphasize, just me, to build and design a dynamic (using PHP and SQL) website for him from scratch and have it done in a month.
Basically, in laymen, he wanted me to make him Google, by myself, in four weeks. I’m still flabbergasted by this one. And he was convinced it would make him millions. Idiot. Idiot. Idiot.
Working for idiots suck. Luckily, I no longer have to.
(Sorry…I wanted to rant too LOL.)
lol im sorry. you lost me with the talks of “php and sql” i have no clue what that is. but if he wanted to be the next google with a team of one person, then yea that was EXTREMELY stupid. microsoft is struggling to compete with google and they have unlimited of resources.
(nice talking w/ you juliette but i’m going to bow out. it seems you can only have an opinion here if you agree with the masses.)
“it seems you can only have an opinion here if you agree with the masses.”
Ignore them.
“So lay off the photoshoppers, people.”
Who said anything about the talent/skill of photoshoppers? By the time of this post the only comments made were regarding the quality of the pictures themselves, which people think suck, which I guess reflects the decision made by a lot of people at GQ. No one singled out photoshoppers.
And even if they did, it’s not like photoshoppers are exempt from critique. Photoshoppers come in a range of skill level like any other job. I am not going to say their job is easy, but some are better at it than others. Maybe some people here actually believe that the photoshoppers for this shoot lacked talent. They are entitled to their opinion even if you disagree with it.
And she’s entitled to her opinion even if you disagree with her.
“Who said anything about the talent/skill of photoshoppers? By the time of this post the only comments made were regarding the quality of the pictures themselves,”
….
“i was directly commenting to what juliette wrote and what i’ve seen on this site as a whole.”
I expect this is her opinion on the entire site not just what’s been written here. This is somebody’s personal perception. You are not guaranteed to share or even understand it.
I think it’s unfair to tell someone not to voice her opinion but to defend others’ right to.
I’m sorry for jumping on the bandwagon here but I felt compelled to place my two cents in on the matter.
“Look at the slew of comments about Beyonce’s stretch marks in that other recent post. But if they were photoshopped off, people would still have a problem…”
Actually, my problem with photoshop isn’t the deletion of “blemishes” like stretchmarks, scars, cellulite, acne(these first 4 can be covered by makeup or pantyhose), wrinkles in the clothes, lighting/shadow mistakes in an otherwise good photo, specks of dust that might have been on the camera lens, adding/taking out a background, adding/taking out a prop, etc… My problem with photoshop is when they alter a woman’s size/body shape and/or appearance; shave or add inches to hips, legs, bust, stomach; change features like make noses bigger or smaller, elongate or shorten a chin, change their ears; etc…
“this isn’t a revelation. i don’t know why people acting shocked or acting as if they just made the discovery of the 8th wonder of the world by pointing out shakira’s nose doesn’t really look like that.” – is that for me?
I did mention in a post that Shakira’s nose was photoshopped. WHY? Because people were saying she got a nose job and trying to prove it with pics from album covers ad I thought it was a little unfair.
I never made a post out of the fact that “Photoshop exists” – I did, however, try to point out when it has gone too far and when it is making already high-standards (like Demi in the other post) become utter utopia – in such cases, I consider Photoshop harmful.
i don’t recall saying you did.
Looks like a typical GQ spread to me.
I agree Versus- It’s not photoshopping I have a problem with, it’s the fact that it’s taken so far sometimes that the people look completely different. The images that all these young girls see are so far from reality yet the youth try to immulate these images and put themselves in harms way doing so.
I think she missed the point entirely, though. It’s the fact that people are attacking the actual quality of work of the photoshoppers; one person commented about how the pool was badly photoshopped, which doesn’t really have much to do with anything.
It’s one thing to say that photoshopping is blurring reality and fantasy (which I completely understand that point and it makes sense), but it’s something else to actually insult the person’s work and say they’re bad at their profession – particularly when the person probably cannot do any better.
I hope that made sense. I kind of wrote this in a super rush.
Sometimes…some photo-shoots…make me feel like photoshopping is not ethical…
Altering the whole features of a person…completely…making them look nothing like they do in real life..
It is horrible–creepy at times–gross at other times.
I understand that sometimes it is needed…like to hide some stretch marks or some really visible flaws..
But it seems to me,while photoshoppers are doing their job ( whether they actually have a say in it or not ).. and trying to make famous people look perfect ( for them ) completely washes them out,and leave them..like..nothing special..with no spirit..and sometimes even ugly…or uglier than the real image.
Photoshopping makes me look at pics and think…nothing special…
While…the truth is…
Every girl is unique…every girl is special
Whether ( for people ) they look appealing or not.
I am glad I had a chance to express how I think about photoshopping…I have never really said anything about it before…and I have been visiting this website for quite a while…
I don’t think it’s fair for an average person to judge the difficulty level of Photoshopping because they may not know and I can imagine it to be very tedious and such, but i think it’s unfair to say that the average person can’t judge the end product. It may always be difficult to do, but some end products look better than others and since those images are going to the average person, why shouldn’t they be able to judge them? By that idea, we shouldn’t judge buildings and houses because we don’t know how difficult it is for architects, or novels, because we don’t know how hard it was for authors to write them..etc. etc.
That being said, I think the pictures are wonky. I love the models, beautiful as always, but the pictures to me look weird. I also agree with whoever said that Alessandra’s face was made too soft, I kind of like her normal sharp facial features as well. Her face has a very powerful look on it, but it’s gone in these photos. :/
It’s the worst photoshoot I have seen.
Why do men think it’s hot when a girl is oiled up? :\\
LOL, true. I think of oily hair, oily skin, oily clothes…which equates to gross, in my opinion.
I think it reminds men of sweat which reminds them of, well, the business.
Haha, Yeah. I just think these women are sexy without being oily, lmao
Not every (heterosexual) guy thinks of oily as attractive. I find these pictures borderline disgusting, from the greasiness of the models to the barbecue leather skin to the stick-thin frames. There is ZERO sensuality here.
Ideal beauty would almost be the opposite of these pictures.
i was going to mention this too. but i thought since it’s aimed a magazine with a male audience, maybe i just don’t understand it since i’m not the target audience, but i agree.
I think it’s just a broad generalization the magazine made, like most magazines kind of seem to do, that men like oily reading-and-waiting women. But…I can’t say that I know if it;s true or not. I don’t really run up to men and say “hey, do you like oily women? Should I drench my body in yummy oil, gape my legs and wear a come hither face?!”
I might ask someone tomorrow though.
In fact, it seems hard to find a good magazine to stick to reading because most of them to start to annoy me after awhile with all their pixelated peppiness. I feel like they’re always shouting at me through the pages.
I want to read magazine that’s on downers or comfortably high.
“as someone who does alter photos for a magazine, it is irritating to see so many people b***h about their idea of quality editing. i doubt many people know the sheer number of hours it takes to alter a photo, pixel by pixel by pixel, and then have the boss come and say they want the model’s nose shrunk or her hips widened, and then have people make remarks like “that is so photoshopped,” well no duh, it is. EVERYTHING you see is edited, from commercials, to ads in the paper, to billboards.”
It’s overprocessed
Photoshopping doesn’t always mean extreme
Here it doesn’t look “arty”, so I’m thinking that the pics are supposed to look “natural”, to an extent, which they don’t
I wonder if “Photoshopers” for magazines are “selftaught”…
It would be more intelligent to hire “Photoshoppers” with a Art/Design degree because they generally have a “better eye”
It’s actually really bad Photoshop
WTF?
my thoughts in a nutshell.
LOL. I actually posted this by mistake. I was on AIM and…well, I get confused easily.
So, if i am a vivid reader but i do not write books it means i cannot judge books? If one things that by solely manipulating photoshop he/she is a genius and no one should ever criticize it, sorry. If i see sh**t i will say sh**t. Photoshoppers should be artists, not idiots. Some of them sure are not artists from what i see. If the people in the picture are totally changed, if the background is full of flaws and i consider it a photoshop disaster i will say. You know why? B/c i know the difference between good job and bad job. sorry for the offtopic, but some of the commenters above were way over their head, so eager to fu*** everyone who doesn’t bow before the hard work of photoshopers. Get real. It’s a job. You do it right: bravos. You do it wrong: handle it! I will not praise something simply b/c it is difficult. Making a movie is difficult. so is writing a book. Should be praise all movies, all books just b/c it is difficult for us? Sorry, get real!
This is my last reply on the topic, i consider myself stupid for continuing this, but on the other hand i felt the need to say it out loud. So maybe some will understand they are not gods just b/c they have a computer skill, which, btw, can actually learned by anyone. The talent to use that skill afterwards, now that is different story.
That was of juvenile.
There’s no need to stoop that low and get on someone about the worth of their job or talent. Considering she pointed out she wasn’t even talking about you. I’m surprised at the level of immaturity from a lot of people in here. Technically, anyone can learn to be a neurosurgeon too so your attempt to belittle her career is unjust.
Everyone here needs to grow up.
I would also like to add, if what these girls wrote affected you to the point you’re sitting on this for hours and judging by the time and you comments, you have, then you need to grow a thicker skin or get off the Internet.
Not everyone is going to share your opinion and I would hope you learn to handle that more gracefully
I agree. I think someone earlier did make a good point that photoshoppers are not always the ones making the ultimate call on what goes in a magazine or not, and it’s good to keep that in mind, but that doesn’t mean photoshoppers are free from any blame. Movie producers and authors have bosses too.
Sometimes, people will feel that it really is the photoshopper’s talent that is in question, and that’s their opinion and there is no reason for them to not have it.
I feel like I should be offended but I haven’t the slightest idea what this drunken rambling says nor do I have the patience to attempt to decipher it.
However, you should take a line from Megan. Grow a thicker skin. If you disliked what I said to this…unusual…. extent then I’m sure you could have found a method to say so sans-expletives and asterisks.
i love them both, they’re gorgeous