Yearbook photos go high-tech

Some U.S. high school yearbook pictures have become elaborate affairs and some parents are willing to pay $2,000 for professional photographic shoots.

In fact, the photographs -- more like modeling shots -- can include airbrushing, digitally enhanced muscles and even fake sweat reported the Sunday Telegraph.

"We can make them thinner and we can make their muscles bigger," said Rick Krebsbach, who photographs children for yearbooks in Iowa. "We do a few things without telling them, like remove a bulge or bump, or slim them down. We like them to feel good about themselves."

One 17-year-old student said in some of her pictures she had a fan blowing her hair, but other students wore swimsuits and a lot of boys did their photos without shirts.

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