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Subject: [Leica] Semi-OT: Cyndi Lauper in today's "Parade"
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 08:23:36 +1000
References: <4C30F991.7080202@threshinc.com>

You made me look because I think that she has a fabulous voice and own
several albums. Well I guess when you are 57 and in the spotlight you might
accept some Photoshop help. But this is not it! Yikes. The photoeditor
should have their Photoshop licence revoked.  I think that there's a
Photoshop disaster site out there somewhere. What a suitable candidate.
The photo looks like it might actually be two shots from the same concert
with the second head shot chosen for a better expression. There is a bolero
type jacket and shoulder pieces so maybe that is giving the wrong body
profile impression.

I actually saw a new and very unflattering recent photo of Cyndi on PBase
just yesterday. That one may be accurate but I doubt if the performer would
put it on her next album!.
http://www.pbase.com/yaamon/image/126209312

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 5 July 2010 07:13, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:

> "Parade" magazine is a little magazine that is included with many Sunday
> newspapers in the U.S.  Today, on Page 2, there is a horrible "photograph"
> of pop singer Cyndi Lauper. I put the word "photograph" in quotes because 
> it
> appears that they pasted a overly large head from one photograph onto the
> (very busty) body of another. The angle each was taken from appears
> different. There is a line around her neck which is real, but it makes the
> head transplant even more apparent, and making it appear that Ms. Lauper 
> had
> a recent close encounter with a garrotte or guillotine.
>
> Yes, it's naive to expect any kind of honesty from a celebrity publicity
> photo, but this one is so bad that I'm surprised that it was ever printed.
> Standards are down all over. Photomontage is not photography!
>
> Thank you.  I feel better now.
>
> --Peter, in curmudgeon mode.
>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Semi-OT: Cyndi Lauper in today's "Parade")
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