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On Sep 17, 9:39 pm, "pico" <pico.pico.pico> wrote: wrote in message
The shadows are inconsistent, some darker, some lighter, some where there shouldn’t be, some where there should be.
The angle of the shadows is consistent. Not all surfaces under the shadows
are equally reflective; the girl’s face on the right is lit by the proximity
and luminance of her pink dress. It piques the shadows.
The baby in the middle has a missing arm (lol)
No she doesn’t. Her sleve is blossomed (it’s a style) and her arm is tucked
behind her for support and you CAN see pink skin right by her body.
The white hat on the right hand girl looks dodgy at the top.
Bad fashion is not illegal.
The man’s arm behind the baby looks wrong
How?
Zooming in shows that certain areas have been smoothed, when the pic has been said to not have been shopped at all.
Smoothing can be done in-camera a couple ways. One can be by the poor optics
of the camera, and some setups in or out of camera ‘smooth’ without the owner/operator even knowing it (a bicubic algorythim to surpress jaggies upon resampling. Consumers tend to prefer soft to chiseled boundaries.)
Basically the only one of the above I see is the smoothing, but I thought I would enlist the help of the real experts.
Use some pass filters and you can see the picture is well within the bounds
of an ordinary happy snap.
Interesting, and thank you!
Oh and Joe, I am starting up a fund to buy you a scroll button and a book called The Silly Waste Of Bandwidth. I have ten bob already.
well I* looked and decided before I formed my opinion but saw the end posts before I posted
I thought it looked very real like any ordinary snapshot and wondered if it was so retouched why it wasn’t better color overall etc
I kept looking to see what might look funny
the hat edge did make me think the girl in front may be added lot of times I had to get kids faces from other shots cause kids didn’t look good in the same frame. light already matches from same session, easier to change just the face than the whole kid though
so I thought maybe the kid wasn’t in frame and the parent wanted a pic with both so maybe she was added later
that and she is in sharp focus the people behind her are softer focus and then the background tree is focus again
so impossible depth of field??
but a humid area on the lens could do that too?