How to shop a picture and be up-front about it

[yakalskovich]

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...


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Comments

[ceitfianna]

Yes, the other shoot was so much more comfortable and would have worked better.

Since she was clearly enjoying herself and sold the jacket wonderfully. Those ad execs just didn't get it.

[yakalskovich]

Which is of course highly ironic as she's become that much of an icon for being on a show about ad execs...

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...

[ceitfianna]

Hee, well it would be excuse for Moist to wear a tuxedo too and I think Urquhart would try and enable that if he could. Maybe a job on the Disc, a noble family on hard times or something like that. I could easily imagine doing something with the feel of those English manor mysteries. That seems to suit the Plains and Pratchett's take on the old rich like Sybil.

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.

[yakalskovich]

Oh yes, that would be a good next plot for the. Once we got through this one.

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.

[ceitfianna]

Actually this article was from someplace else. Someone had taken a screencap of her talking and pointed out all the weight loss stuff. Let me see if I can find it, this might take longer than I expected.

Oh yes, I'd love. I adore those old murder mysteries and on the Disc, all those tropes would just be heightened.

[yakalskovich]

On the Disc, all the myths are true. All the tropes take you for a ride. It would be fun to use them for an OOM.