The secret of great real estate photography is making a place look bigger, while dispelling the sense that you are about to be swallowed whole by a huge animal.
Thanks to Sara at lovelylisting (a blog you will enjoy). Original is here.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Red Fin: Just How Bijou Are We Talking About?
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i'm confused...
why?
does it have to?
pls somebody enlighten me..
It's Clifford's house!
What the hell? Hahahaha
At first I thought someone included a pic of a doll house in the midst of the real photos, but that's not the case. So... someone went to 'shop in some background greenery and got a dog instead? How does this even happen?
... not to mention the second story door of death
Freakin' hilarious.
Typical real estate listing: It fails to mention major issues with the house, such as the monstrous dog in the backyard.
i guess it's so everyone will know the "large fully fenced backyard" can hold even the largest mutant golden retriever.
IT'S CLOVERDOGFIELD!
(taken from Sarah's website - not an original thought)
This is skeery
Y'know, I'll bet the owners or the realtor are fans of Photoshop Disasters and did that on purpose to increase traffic to their listing.
*bwahahaha*
That's about 20 blocks from my house. You'd think I would have noticed a dog that size running around the neighborhood...
I think Jeanne's partly right. With many of these disasters, you have to ask yourself how they can happen. Usually it's laziness, neglect or poor motor control, but with this one there's absolutely no reason for a gigantic fucking dog to appear through the patio window. I doubt they were trying to get onto this blog specifically, but I expect it's been done on purpose to generate interest. It's a perfect viral campaign, and I can imagine millions of people - the kind that forward 3MB PowerPoint presentations full of photos of kittens on skateboards, or ridiculous scare emails with stupid urban myths about razorblades in waterslides - forwarding this to everyone in their address book.
Hahahahaha....
Or maybe it's an image for a window covering they're trying to sell? Perhaps they have those in German Shepherd? That would be awesome.
That's effin hilarious
Here there's a random slide off the deck. Except I don't think it's a photoshop, because you can see the outline of it in another shot of the deck.
And this image leads me to think maybe this really was just a mistake and not an easter egg or trying to promote the listing for free. On the left, the space between the railings has been replaced with grass.
I believe it's intentional, though perhaps not as a viral campaign. I can see an agent putting that dog in there just to get a sense of which people are getting through all the pictures, and seeing how many people comment on it.
Photoshop disasters shouldn't think TOO highly of itself!
they used the dog to try to hide the giant cat behind him
You know, the larger dogs tend not to live as long ... so I think the owners of this house have about thirty seconds to evacuate before that guy goes critical.
If that thing starts talking to me in John Ritter's voice, I'm outta here.
Where can I get a dog like that? I want one!!!
Can you just imagine taking that guy for a walk? "Oh no! Fido just flooded the Johnsons' house!" And you'll need a backhoe as a pooper scooper.
So they want people to buy doll's house furniture that looks like real furniture?
Or is there a giant dog on the loose somewhere?
@anonymous
"IT'S CLOVERDOGFIELD!
(taken from Sarah's website - not an original thought)"
That's not even funny. What would have made a better pun is "IT'S DOGZILLA!" but I suppose that's far from original too.
@laura
Neither should you.
Maybe it's the house next to The Sandlot. James Earl Jones is moving or something.
The client said to make the yard look better outside the glass doors, so the artist pasted in a nice garden, but the client wasn't satisfied. "Try a swingset," the client said. So the artist did, but the client didn't like it. "Put a friendly dog in the back," said the client. But when the artist did that, the client said the dog was too small. So the artist made it bigger, but the client still wasn't satisfied. So the artist put in a stupidly humongous dog, and the client said, "Perfect."
This is NOT a Photoshop Disaster. This is a Photoshop Success. That is a cute dog, and obviously it was done entirely intentionally. Com'on. Let's see some freaky models again.
No. Way.
Best one yet IMO.
LOL.
I also want a dog like that one...
The thing is, it's not even all that well comped in. If this were an entirely intentional attempt to make a real living room look like a doll's house, it would still be a poor Photoshop. I mean... the dog is casting no shadow, for starters.
lol it's just a picture of the dog that the owners of the house printed on their curtains. Looks weird to me, but hey, not everyone has great taste ;).
awesome!
Riiiight. A viral campaign to sell one medium-priced house in shoreline. Some of you people are nuts. Do a lot of you blog readers live in shoreline?
Is this blog the perfect shoreline demographic?
where are the "this blog has gone downhill" fags now????????
lol, Why isn't Clifford red anymore?
One possible explanation: they had a separate layer for the backyard (or whatever is supposed to be behind the door). I guess it was your typical yard scene: lawn, kids, dog.
Now through some fuck-up they scaled this layer way up and gave birth to the legend of Huge Dog.
Okay, this is amusing, but there is no way this isn't on purpose. You would basically have to be blind to do this accidentally.
Not a disaster, but worth looking at.
It still looks disastrous, regardless of intent, regardless of explanation, regardless of a moment of temporary insanity. It looks stupid. Period. It's not even artistic. Pfft.
PSD rocks my socks. :)
I think it's completely awesome. Cracks me up.
http://i-0.rfimg.us/photo/1/bigphoto/203/28127203_5_0.jpg
from another listing. No that I'm the least bit suspicious about what they were cloning over - wavy windows are HOT.
Can you just imagine taking that guy for a walk? "Oh no! Fido just flooded the Johnsons' house!" And you'll need a backhoe as a pooper scooper.
This was always my problem with clifford, even as a child xD
Hey dog, why… so… serious?
Here's the link to Google Earth:
http://www.googleearth.com/huge_roversorus.888/.png
hehehehehe
That's not a disaster - its just a very big dog.
the real back story...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/photographyforrealestate/discuss/72157606431459825/
That's freaking funny!
"lol it's just a picture of the dog that the owners of the house printed on their curtains."
Christine, who hangs their curtains not just outside the window but out past the eaves? Stop trying to explain away things that are blindingly, ridiculously obviously mistakes.
I think it'd be SUPER epic if the dog was a Pug instead of a Golden Retriever XDD.
it isn't that uncommon to see a re-done sky in real estate listings, perhaps this one was accidentally nudged before it was saved.
"Nice place, but it's a little smaller than we're looking for."
An homage to Fraggle Rock perhaps
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i am Anon @ July 28, 2008 2:24 PM (the very first poster)
now, I'm enlightened.. and at peace.. thanks to Anon @ July 29, 2008 2:41 PM
:)
they fixed it on the website
cuteeee doggie!
LMAO!
CLIFFORD!!!
It was one purpose, lol.
"The Agent who posted this shot is not only a client, but she is also a dear friend. We both have the same sense of humor.
So of course when she said that she didn't want to see that damn dog in the shot, I had to not only put it in, but it was also absolutely imperative to embellish it.
I was out scouting a location for a fashion shoot, when I got a call from her. She was laughing hysterically. She said that she had just opened up the folder with my shots and that I had made her day.
She told me at the time that she was going to post it in order to share it with the world, of course I thought she was joking.
I'm going to check with her in a little while, and i expect to find that the MLS has had a trillion hits on it. As we all know the more looks a place gets the better."
They replaced it now. But I like the "It's Lovely" site, so thanks.
Their ad probably got more views than any other and they sold their house for $60,000 more than their neighbors. Well done. In the ad biz they call this the "made you look!" strategy.
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must be in the neighborhood of that smirnoff ice ad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdN-mNtjvXw
I'd have a tough time living in a neighborhood with a dog that size looking in my windows all the time. Now I feel really sorry for all of Emily Elizabeth's neighbors. At least he doesn't look dangerous.
That dog IS the smirnoff ice ad dog isn't he? Hehe, perfect find.
And you've just reminded me of what would be worse than the dog - the freaking fleas! Holy crap! Fleas on that scale would be like some horror movie.
If you live in the Seattle area (and possibly this applies elsewhere) the 'prefab' house maker Quadrant advertises their mobile homes as being ginormous, with the radio ads making it sound like you can play football in the livingroom and have to hike for days from the bedroom to the familyroom.
This... is the exact opposite. (And slightly more realistic, your house can only be so ginormous if it has a 900 sq.ft. footprint.)
Well, considering they've fixed it, it can't have been deliberate.
I think I figured out what's going on here. To obscure the view of an unattractive back yard, the owners had a custom static cling made from a photo of their dog to cover the sliding door glass..... :-D
Thanks a lot. Yes, it looks bigger more.
BREAKING "NEWS":
Real estate companies are selling dollhouses at the price of real houses!
"BREAKING "NEWS":
Real estate companies are selling dollhouses at the price of real houses!
and Vice virca
This is quite possibly one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. I was laughing for at least five minutes straight with tears rolling down.
Well I don't think that funny at all and consider it as photoshop disaster. Seems like you are just pushing things in with some sarcasm.
"IT'S CLOVERDOGFIELD!
That's not even funny. What would have made a better pun is "IT'S DOGZILLA!" but I suppose that's far from original too.
Come ON. No one thought ROVERFIELD?? Better puns people. That goes for the sorry "Dogzilla" comment too.
Have you seen a truly awful joke in the comments section of PSD? Clumsy puns, senseless analogies, lazy satire and thoughtless retouching are our bread and butter. And yes, deep down, we love jokes.
If it is on PSD and awful then please let us know!
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