4Jun/11Off
I hate PhotoShop
Swinging With the Finkels
This is a picture I snapped in the London tube recently. Taking this thing apart, it's just atrocious what we're expected to overlook. All these Photoshop
- The bodies. Really? Do these two people have some disease that makes their heads look like bobble head dolls? This is a case of mushing them until they fit the frame.
- They're not sitting on that couch. Most of the time, when someone sits on a couch, they distort the cushion. That cushion is photo-perfect straight.
- They probably weren't even sitting on the same bench at the same time when their photos were taken. They're unnaturally close, to the point that one would interfere with the other in some way, were they to sit that close together in real life.
- The other 8 people in the poster? I'd bet money that the two women on the right were the only two people to be photographed at the same time. The others were shot individually and just slapped in there.
- The shadows are perfect, photoshop gaussian blur that we've all come to accept as good stand-ins for actual shadow.
I don't know why I get so frustrated with all this. But I think it's just an insult to the public to put crap out like this. I mean, with all the photographers in the world, we couldn't find one who could put two people on a couch and take a decent picture of them?
August 19th, 2011 - 07:50
Utterly agree! I’ve come to loathe the amount of “perfection” I see in magazines lately, especially my wife’s womens’ mags.
I love carefully taken photos, and appreciate when someone gets “That perfect shot”, but I hate it when lazy designers just fiddle with images instead. Almost every image you see in every magazine has been tweaked, and I don’t like it!
I want to see the real person in the photo. I’m tired of being duped into seeing a fake human staring back at me with elongated neck, over-blue eyes, and that ever-so-slightly out-of-focus area around the eyes to disguise normality.
Urrrghhhh.