I never aim for photo realism (when I work in Poser).  For me imagination is too beautiful and amazing to limit it to the real world by making it photo realism.  I do create realism from time to time but I never strive for photo realism.

I've never been a fan of "doctored" images of real people with the purpose of making people believe that the image is real.  Magazine that do that are are intentially trying to mislead the viewer.  If it was something that was stated as art then no problem, but the fact that their focus is to "enhance" the celebs image by performing plastic surgery via photoshop makes me sick.  I never cared much for deception like this.

How many girls and women will try to be like an image that the celeb can't even be?