Such a beautiful color and style on Kylie!

I guess Kelly will...

It's always such a conflict with shows like this. You want to scream "this is not real life, these characters are horrible people and represent the larger gay community terribly!" You also want to shout "I actually know some people that are just like this, and they are as horrible humans as in this show." And…

Who? Are we supposed to know this person?

We treat poodles or household cats with more compassion and dignity in easing them away from this life comfortably and with calm. There's nothing sadder than to see someone you love slowly, painfully shut down, drugged out of comprehension to ease the suffering of the caregivers, rather than to let someone pass of…

Faking or not, I still find him incredibly annoying. It's like a live action Emporer's New Clothes where everyone is pretending Yeezy Boost is "the future." They're shoes. They go on your feet. You walk around on them. It's music. You listen to it. You think, "oh that's a nice tune."

With matching makeup, maybe more like her. But there is definitely something different. (my (crappy) retouch)

The article though alleges racist intent on how she was presented. I don't think that's the case at all.

You said it was a more complicated issue than just photographic technology or style. I disagree especially in this instance, and with a lot of supposed instances highlighted in the media. It's very straightforward. There is no bias being represented here. Racism is complicated, photography can be misused in…

My only reply is for you to compare this InStyle cover to covers she did for some other traditionally black culture magazines. Please explain the difference.

Our eyes capture multiple more amounts of picture data than can be represented in magazine printing, 3 to 6 times more generally. Magazines are only printed at the equivalent of 300 dpi where 20/20 vision represents about 720+ and our maximum detail capture tops out at an amazing 2200. But more importantly, our brains…

OR you could all accept that celebrity photography is highly stylized and that different photographers will represent people differently (hence how she looked on the Lucky cover). Pale skinned celebrities will regularly represented with darker skin, or tan to appear darker skinned than the truly are. Have you looked…

Perhaps it's because I do photography professionally, I don't see the controversy here. Good practice in portrait photography requires you to be able to see the subject well. It's obviously more complicated, but dark skinned people will be underexposed to lighten and reveal detail, light skinned people with be…

Also, on a number of other blogs and news reports, you see reports of serious STDs that have nothing to do with HIV but are as preventable with consistent, correct use of condoms. I'm really angry the drug maker and many leading gay voices make Truvada a priority instead of emphasizing it as a complimentary treatment.

I bet she got a golden ticket late-night drunk private message from Rupert!

No you're correct. For better or worse I'm a much more inexperienced photographer than I am a retoucher. I'm less familar with the mechanics of getting the image in the camera than what to do with it afterwards. My job usually starts when someone hands me a set of images to process. That said, the manipulation I see…

Yes, again, it could be an effect of a lens correction which will pinch or expand from the center. The girl assumes it was done though as part of retouching meant to correct to beauty standards, as does this post, and I simply don't see this being the case without knowing the workflow and what was truly manipulated.…

I see what you're saying. I know there was post-processing manipulation. A lens correction could produce the effect of the picture though in reducing the prominence of the jaw is all I'm noting. Was it done deliberately to make the girls look thinner? I can't say without knowing the workflow and see other examples.…

Unfortunately, in production houses where you're processing hundreds of pictures at once, it's not uncommon to fix for these sorts of things as part of the process. I mean obviously the goal is to retouch so the subject is them at their best, not a completely different person. But it's hard to take the care for each…

No actually. What I'm saying is that short lenses (wide angle) can distort facial features in a portraits. Without metadata, I have no idea what lens was used or if this was even the case. You'd literally need to know their entire workflow to be certain and if the pictures in question were presented without any other…