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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Digital Photoshop Disaster Of The Year, 2009
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I cannot believe someone wasted the time to hand-draw the camera display when there was a photo available. I guess when you are outsourcing for 50 cents a day, why not?
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I'm impressed. They take a beautiful landscape with a camera in the foreground and a hand taking a photo and it still ends up looking somewhere between one and two dimensions.
Can you imagine the amount of super glue necessary to hold up that camera with just your thumb?
New floating cam function??
@dude mann: The thumb obviously belongs to a cyborg and there is a magnet in the camera.
Ouch! That's nasty. I think I like the unrealistic orange skintone best, followed by the absence of grip.
It probably just a small owl.
Not a PSD, this was clearly made in GIMP
I just feel sorry for whoever took the photo of the hill - which is probably a pretty good photo.
I want to win a 500D, though, so I'd still buy it...
I have a spatula glued to my hand.
Long story.
What's really sad is if they had just purposefully designed it as a floating camera, with no hand, it would have looked artistic! Like a Magritte.
Holy light source Batman.
Whilst I don't know the camera, shouldn't the view be in "Tallscreen"?
The thumb is there to show he is holding the camera in the air using the force.
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?
Clearly, someone capable of being "Digital Photographer of the Year" is both very large, and capable of taking simple landscapes without actually holding the camera.
I'm not it.
New floating cam function??
New floating TINY cam function, I think you mean...
Well, most of those mags are rehashed articles and ads so a crap cover seems suitable.
Although, I do want a camera I can use just with my thumb.
People wonder why print magazines are dying. Here is your answer.
I'm not sure I get it....the orange hand and floating camera yes, but the description would indicate the disaster is somewhere in the landscape/LCD display...and I can't see the disaster there (maybe I need a copy of the mag to see it properly)
It's the amazing floating camera! Now with incredible wide lens technology (image in viewscreen is wider than image on page)! Also with miraculous built-in cloud stamp (image in viewscreen features clouds; image in front of camera has a clear sky)! Also auto-adjusts levels and curves to amp yellows and blowout more dramatic horizon gradients! Once in a lifetime deal!
It is a distance/perspective thing. The the distance between the thumb in the foreground and and camera is half the distance of the camera to the landscape subject. So it is a floating camera with part of a random hand stuck in the image.
Or maybe it is a wide-angle lens. I recall several months ago that was the theme of the "not a disaster" whiners for a few weeks. Everything that looked screwy was explained by it being shot with a wide angle lens and Cosmo7 clearly didn't know how to look at images, blah, blah, blah.
Didn't have the staying power of my girlfriend but it served its purpose.
Maybe I'm writing the obvious, but the area where the thumb connects to the hand on the right side is really awkwardly cut out. If you model your thumb in the same way, you'll have a stretched fold of skin, where the cover have a nice sharp, perfectly cut (almost 45-degree) angle.
My camera can do that
I´m not sure I see the wrong in this, disregarding the floating thumb that is. A camera display tends to make things appear more distant than they really are.
If they are giving away a Canon 500D, wouldn't it make more sense to use a Canon in this image instead of a Nikon?
wv: pictizin
I'm just disappointed because issue 86, which I had to have shipped from the UK to the US because I missed it, has no Photoshop tips in its Helpdesk section. Which is why I ordered it in the first place for $20+.
Oh, and the comped thumb and LCD images here are suspect, you might wanna check them out.
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/4120/diaartwork.jpg
the right hand
original: shakira.com
Note that the DIGITAL camera has a button to rewind photographic film.
Not only is it bad, it's also Roseberry Topping which is one of the most photographed landscapes in the UK. I'm sure there must be at least one photo of a camera there available.
EVERY single layer is in focus. Neither cameras nor the human eye work like that.
To a recent comment: the fact that the image on the screen appears to be wider than the background doesn't necessarily mean an "incredible wide angle lens", but just that the camera's lens is wider than the apparent width angle of the background photo (e.g. the camera has 24mm lens, and the scene has been photographed with e.g. 50mm lens, then the image on the camera screen would appear much wider than can be seen on the overall photo).
With this I do not want to say that I think this is a genuine photo ☺.
You see this everywhere in british magazines (primary colour over saturation, crude montage with no regard to DOF etc.); it's a kind of national graphic style, and for anyone interested, it's one of the exotic things to see when you go there.
Not a PSD as such. You've tasted their food - this is another treat.
To be fair, the clouds may have been removed from the cover on purpose, as most magazines modify, wrap, overlay that title space, etc.
This would be less painful if there had just been a tripod underneath.
There is nothing wrong with that cam. The photographer is probably a Jedi, so he doesn't need to hold the camera with his hand.
AH, I noticed Bethany caught the other flaw too, using a Nikon instead of a Canon dSLR for the ad.
Carlos Magno said "Note that the DIGITAL camera has a button to rewind photographic film."
Thank God. My old DVD rewinder has been acting up and maybe I can use a camera to replace it. All I'll need is a mini-usb to centronics adapter, eh?
I would hardly call this a "disaster of the year". Heck, I wouldn't even call it submission queue worthy.
I like how the hand isn't even gripping the fucking camera.
That's a Fuji S5, not a Nikon
@mark jarvis
The title of the post is a play on the headline in the comp. Get it?
Of course the truly disastrous thing about this image is the most obvious thing. This image should not have been comped at all. They should have used a DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
P.S. Entertaining blog. The caption on this post made me laugh.
actually, the piece probably would have been fine had they just left the whole hand out. Why? What's the purpose? It does nothing but take away from the content. Too bad.
It is the new NikonZero calories!! it floats and comes with a super back light so your hands keep warm in the thin air :)
I think it has something to do with Sylar, from Heroes. The picture was taken shortly after Sylar thought about holding the camera, but before he actually had a griop on it.
What, you can't hold your camera with just your thumb? Psha... lame.
You might say this Photoshop work is... heavy handed.
"Note that the DIGITAL camera has a button to rewind photographic film."
No it doesn't? It's a straight shot of a Nikon DSLR.
Judging from the dark viewfinder, I suspect that they also left the lens cap on.
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I think that's Roseberry Topping, that hill. I live near it.
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