Pimple removal

Ling always complains that she doesn’t look so good when I take pictures of her and Hannah. She’d look at her oily skin, eye bags, wrinkles, unflattering lighting, pimples, acne, black spots; then cringe and grumble that I didn’t take her ‘good’ side.

Truth to tell, it’s possible to remove a lot of those, er, skin ‘features’. You could always open the aperture wide-open, but sometimes photographic conditions make that unwise as there’re always trade-offs. The smarter way is to do photographic post-processing. E.g. consider the two pictures below: the before, and after post-processing:

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Now you see it, now you don’t! And no, I didn’t correct everything… it would have taken too much time.

And Ling is grumbling again now while I write this post – she’s asking why I didn’t remove her crows’ feet LOL.