What's your thoughts on these photos?

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I think they are stunning

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3926872/Photographer-transforms-ordinary-women-glamorous-pin-ups-seductive-photoshoots-says-bring-best-beauty.html

I wouldn't mind some of the non lingerie shoots...just to keep on kidding myself.
Has anyone ever tried anything like this.

Oh lawks, these are a bit naff aren't they

Cheeseballs.

Truly naff.

My eyes! SO, SO naff.

The women are hardly recognisable because they've been edited so much. That's not so much bringing out their 'best beauty', but more changing them into a completely different person. Is it not okay to look 'ordinary'?

i like them, id quite like to go for the pamper experience. hair done make up done, some nice lingerie/clothes and then some photographic evidence of me looking really good. dont find them naff at all. but id expect that most of mn will look down their noses at it.

i look ordinary every day. Is it so bad to want to look glamorous for a change? Even if its not strictly realistic like every other celebrity photograph out there.

wibble I don't disagree with you on that. But all the heavy photoshopping so you can barely recognise yourself? Of course it's nice to have hair and makeup done, but I would still want to look like me (scars and all)

The first one is quite cool, but the others vary from naff to sleazy. And those "glamour" photoshoots always make me think you'd have to wear sweaty second hand stockings- euw.

If I went to someone's house and they had one of those hung up on the wall there's a good chance I would literally piss myself laughing.

I suppose if you did it just for yourself to feel special and had a photo album (do they even exist these days?) to remember the day it would be fine, if that's the kind of thing you're into.

It is somewhat irksome though that everybody has to be a model these days.

I've done a few but for my job, not for myself if that makes sense? One of the photos I adore, I look like me and yeah it's been put on a canvas. It was my first published photo with me as a model so it's special to me
Some of the other stuff I do is more edgy or natural

They are all beautiful the way they were before the photo!
I think the pictures look cheap and tarty. Nothing nice about them. Sorry!

Gin - you can ask. I have a bit of a clause about photoshop
Removing things that shouldn't be there, fine but I won't have my body shape altered
If you're the paying client then you should be able to get what you ask for from a good photographer
Sometimes I don't like the photos taken of me but I have to suck it up!

Yes, they all looked much better before.

I don't think they are naff, if I had one done of me I'd be walking on sunshine with the vision in my head of said photo feeling all confident and generally happier in my skin. I know they are photo shopped but if they bring joy to the people and help them feel happier who is it hurting? I like it.

How can you wear lingerie that someone else has worn!? I don't get it. Or do you not?

You generally don't!
You might wear a robe or a top or dress or chemise that someone else has worn or shoes or a corset or jewellery
Stockings are always new, lingerie will be your own. I have two huge suitcases stuffed with mine

I like them. Gorgeous.

Cringe.

What would you actually do with the photos though? Put them in a cringey album? Husband's wank folder on laptop? Can't exactly frame them and put them on the wall as they're so cheesy and not really in keeping with modern home decor? Share them on Facebook to get hundreds of likes and "you look gawjus hun!" comments? Look at them every now and then to remind yourself how beautiful you are when styled, shot and excessively photoshopped by a professional photographer? I don't get it!

I dont normally like this sort of thing, but I don't mind these.

I like them!

I prefer the before photos where they look like real people. So much photoshopping on the "glamorous" shots.