was looking at some old photos of Kate bush, Stevie Nicks, and some other celebrities photoshoots from that time period and admiring the glowy affect or the purple and red colour palette on the photos wondering how I can achieve that same effect and then I realized that they did not have online editing software or even internet but the photos still look very nice and not like raw images I usually see. This may be a dumb question, I am not a photographer and do not know much about all this stuff but I am just curious.
I learned something new today.
Here’s a NSFW factoid too.
Men’s magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse, in order to meet the strict censorship guidelines of the day where women were not allowed to have visible genitalia, would use this literal airbrush editing technique to make certain body parts (almost) Barbie-Doll smooth. Which probably led to a whole generation or two of men growing up with a poor understanding of female anatomy.