in which case, postproduction is going to take a REALLY long time
Post production
will take a really long time because we've been led to believe it will go well into next year.
As for the photos, my reaction to them wasn't anywhere as negative as some have been. Maybe that's because my first thought was that we have absolutely no idea how the scene places within the film - it could be some bizarre dream for all we know. But even if it is a real situation, we still know nothing about it. I mean, even beyond the makeup, Barnabas is wearing a hat, sunglasses and gloves - who's to say that in the film the cover for him not being able to go out in daylight isn't that he has some sort of rare skin disease - and if so, this scene could be some intermediate stage in a Dr. Hoffman's attempted cure in which he goes out in the sun for the first time but still needs to protect himself? Sure, the makeup makes him look bizarre - but within the film everyone would understand that and be quite happy for him.
As for my second thought, it was very similar to what others have said. Even though the makeup is exaggerated (to say the least), that in no way means that's the way it reads on camera. Not even getting into what may be done digitally with CGI, there could be any number of real time camera tricks going on depending on what filters cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel is using. Trust me, I'm one of those people who watches every last second of the extras on DVDs/Blu-rays, and it's often amazing and even shocking to see what the makeup requirements are in some films (particularly horror and sci-fi films) for the desired look to come across correctly on camera. And truthfully, though certainly not quite as exaggerated, one need look no further than the '91 Series and some of the "real" photos of Ben Cross when he was in vamp makeup to see how different he looked in real life as opposed to how the makeup appeared on camera. If any of those photos had leaked as the first images of Barn from that series, I hesitate to think what people might have been saying...
And one last point: Chloe Moretz has said that Depp looks "weird," yet when asked about Depp's look for the film at Comic-Con, all Lara Parker would say was that he looks "incredibly handsome." And a way to possibly reconcile that obvious disparity is that Chloe was talking about how Depp really looks, meaning with the makeup, but Lara was talking about what he looks like on camera. If not, Lara certainly made herself look completely foolish if she was describing what we're seeing in these photos as looking "incredibly handsome."
239 days 12 hours 15 minutes 12 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!