Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just in last day, on abcnews website, I saw "Toyota ...breaking problems..." and on cnn.com, "... World Cub..." I am sure they passed the spelling checker. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:13 PM, 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]