Hello! Project Photobooks

[Sohee]

Kanon looks great, she should do that style more.

[esm]

I was just thinking of how flat cheated Japanese girls tend to be on average and then I saw Kikka's bikini pictures lol

Girls in AKB48 & related groups tend to have bigger chest

[otaku_blue]

^
i remember reading an article that said some of their limbs were photoshopped and edited to make them appear that way though?

like the lighting was used and stuff like that. even now you can really see that some girls really don't have anything at all, especially at concerts.

[Starra]

I wouldn't put it past them. Also, like I said, push-up bras and bikini tops.

[Sohee]

I saw a pic ages ago of Mayu and whoever else that looked scarily surreal and after having stared at it for ages I noticed that their knees had been photoshopped so they... didn't really have any knees but just smooth "perfect" skin and nothing at all, while sitting down. Creeped me out like crazy tbh.

[zam_ho]

^Thats airbrushing. I think all fashion magazine do that too - to remove the wrinkles in the skin ^^;

[Sohee]

Same thing to me xD
Still though. Removing wrinkles is one thing. Removing KNEES is a whole different story. >.>

[Starra]

Some AKB members do have nice bodies, though. I don't get why they need to photoshop them so much.

[otaku_blue]

This was the article (coincidentally all the images don't work anymore)...
http://aramatheydidnt.livejournal.com/2666413.html
Thats why I don't take their magazine shoots seriously although I do enjoy them occasionally.

Working link: http://www.jpopasia.com/news/akb48-phot ... :8569.html

[Zunu]

At least half of those alterations are just things like removing shadows and creases. It has nothing to do with AKB - any model including from H!P would get the same exact treatment.

When you take a photo of someone, it amplifies their features, both appealing and unappealing. If the girl is of normal weight, she's going to have a tiny little bulge if she bends in some directions. If she's so skinny as to have NO bulge, then you're going to see her ribs, collarbone and hipbone poking out from some angles. If she has a perfectly smooth face, it will look puffy in some photos. If her face is so gaunt to never look puffy, then it will look angular and sunken in some photos. Etc. Nobody ever has photos that look 100% all the time. Maybe it would be good if no magazines ever photoshopped anything, but we've already traveled down that road.