the reason (Patreon)

ONLY READ THIS IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT LOSING THE ILLUSION.
ONLY LOOK AT THE SERIES IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE THE UNRETOUCHED TRUTH.

This  is some background-info about things that happen in the life of a  photographer and that are not always exciting. For those interested.

So,  when I looked trough the thumbnails in my archive I discovered this  series and saw a nice young woman showing her obviously for the first  time, but still really openly.

I wondered why I had never edited one single photo from this session - until I looked at them in full size.

The  young woman had a terrible, really terrible, skin full of red spots or  pimples. In fact, I think it was scabies of what she suffered. Scabies  are acarians, or said more amateurish: smallest micro-spiders that live  in the skin and reproduce extremely fast. They are very infectious: if  you come close to somebody who has them, most probably you'll have them,  too.

Of course, I am not sure if it was that, I am not a doctor,  but it looks very much like it (I knew other girls that had it, and  even catched it myself twice, but not at this occasion) and it is easily  curable with just applying a special cream.

So I was bit annoyed  when I saw the photos at that time. Not only that she put me on the  risk to catch those critters, too, not to talk about other models who  would sit on the same chairs... But also because editing those images is  a lot, really a lot of work, and not exactly pleasant work being  concentrated on those spots for days and days... To be honest, I was a  bit upset about her, that she came to me for a nude photo session  knowing the condition of her skin.

So I just copied the files to my hard disk and forgot about them.

You may be wondering why I photographed her at all.

It  has to do with my eyes. Up close, without glasses I see everything a  bit blurred. And I don't like putting on my close-up glasses to examine a  model's body in detail, I'd feel weird and the model would probably  feel weird too. So with the naked eyes instead of individual spots, I  just see a slightly reddened area.

Although my camera has diopter  correction, the viewfinders of modern cameras are so tiny that you  can't see any details in them either, unless you're taking a macro  photo.

In other words, I only see the disaster when I have the pictures large on my screen.

Well,  a long time after the sessions, of course, my annoyance has long gone  and as I clicked through the session, I thought it might be worth  showing you. That's why I spent the last few days in front of the screen  on a cosmetic mission, so to speak.

In the gallery I have three  gif's for those who really want to see the unretouched version, each  with an alternating before/after.

Don't tell me afterward you wish you hadn't seen it, though. I warned you :-)