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yakalskovich) wrote2010-08-27 02:37 pm
yakalskovich) wrote2010-08-27 02:37 pm
How to shop a picture and be up-front about it
I think this is the modern digital-photographic equivalent of what conscientious restorers of museum objects have been done for decades: when you put a Greek vase or a medieval garment back together for display, you use some contrastingly neutral material for the parts that are missing, plain grey linen among all the tyrian-purple-and-gold, or some white clay for the parts of the delicate red-figures vase that remains missing. If broken statues have hands, but not arms, they get steel bars or thin pieces of concrete.
This is what you do when you want to photoshop the background out from a candid picture of a celebrity and make a point of how honest you are, and that you're not 'shopping' the picture: you roughly outline the real object of the picture, then invert the selection and blur the rest. Roughly enough to leave that odd halo-like margin of in-focus background, but still well enough to focus solely on what you want to show.
I must admit it looks odd, but I guess we'll get used to it.-
Of course, Christina Hendricks looks stunning as always. And if this new principle gives me an excuse to repost the picture of her which I found it on, all the better...
[[From here]]
This is what you do when you want to photoshop the background out from a candid picture of a celebrity and make a point of how honest you are, and that you're not 'shopping' the picture: you roughly outline the real object of the picture, then invert the selection and blur the rest. Roughly enough to leave that odd halo-like margin of in-focus background, but still well enough to focus solely on what you want to show.
I must admit it looks odd, but I guess we'll get used to it.-
Of course, Christina Hendricks looks stunning as always. And if this new principle gives me an excuse to repost the picture of her which I found it on, all the better...
[[From here]]
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Did you read that article on Jezebel about her being photoshopped by London Fog?
Also I like your comparison. Most of those restorers made sure to make it clear, this is modern plaster not ancient marble. Though you did get the ones who combined pieces in odd ways to sell them to people. Still the really good restorers made it clear where what they did stopped.
I should try and be more awake when posting since you said this already. *handwaves* Never mind.
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And yes, I saw that article and actually found these people pathetic. They hire the 'it' girl of the moment, then make her look like everybody else. WTF??
Especially as everybody proudly shows the videos of the shoot and so people know what the originals looked like.
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Since she was clearly enjoying herself and sold the jacket wonderfully. Those ad execs just didn't get it.
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She's very beautiful and totally above such silly little idiots. What she says in interviews is quite intelligent and inspiring.
Now we will just have to think of a reason for Urq or Moist to get Saffron that sort of green gown as a gift, and some heist-related excuse for her to wear it...no subject
She is, I think there was another thing on Jezebel where there was interview of her talking about how much she loves her body surrounded by horrible weight loss ads.
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Odd that Jezebel accepted those horrible weight loss ads at all. But I guess they're in some package web sites can book so they don't have to sell their own advertising. They're all over the internet.
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Oh yes, I'd love. I adore those old murder mysteries and on the Disc, all those tropes would just be heightened.
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