Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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Putting a kill notice on members of the royal family would have got you hung, drawn and quartered in times past. Even now I would have thought a life sentence for treason is in order. Seriously though,who sent that picture out? I did wonder when I saw it on the news whether the younger boy has an impairment of his hand as they were concentrating on far less obvious issues such as the daughter's hand. The wife said he just has his fingers crossed which misses that half of one is missing and that unless he has joint hypermobility it seems impossible to cross fingers like that.
If it's genuine Wills better not post in the photography thread until he improves his skills.
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Just as an example of how not to manipulate images, it's a good example of how amateur sleuths will work stuff out. The crossed fingers thing is possibly possible, but there are two rows of lower teeth, a misaligned hand/sleeve, pullover pattern fail, and the most glaring one is below Kate's head, raising suspicions that her head has been (badly) pasted in.
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To be fair some of these things may be genuine and explained by the desire of posh people to maintain bloodlines 😂
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The longer they carry on like this, the more it seems like something is quite badly wrong.
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Middlething apologises.
Any fule kno the lizards need to cover up da skin.
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They are but this one is completely fake and made up using AI in some way. Who knows why?
This is not simply adjusting exposure, contrast, saturation or removing some lines.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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There's ai and there's ai. You can generate a whole image, but Google also can "fix" photos very quickly using AI.
Or not fix
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I'm intrigued by the level of interest this has generated.
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It's a level of incompetence that is interesting even to those of us who don't care what's really happened.
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Yep, sending out an image to try to stop rumours and then doing such a bad job of faking the image that media companies won't publish seems to be a massive own goal and only likely to intensify speculation. It seems a weird thing for their PR people to mess up so badly as presumably they are well-paid and experienced in media management. They've now compounded it even further by 'the Princess' (i.e. her media manager) explaining it as a bit of experimenting with the family snaps. I think they need new advisors.
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She likes photography and is probably unaware of all the press rules. That sounds believable to me and I doubt her press team, who do know the rules, would have thought to question it.. In her position, I would just publish the originals and laugh it off, but that probably isn't the royal way.
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Otherwise known as parking spots. Standard countrywide.
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That reminds me of this.
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Keep watching!
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I did once report a trade vehicle that was on double yellows slap bang at the end of a bike filter to the company to whom the van belonged, and it wasn't there the next day. Small victories.
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Yeah, that's a good compilation, and he obviously knows how to fall...
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That's a generous take. I'm very aware of the criteria laid down for my school and prior to that to FE college I worked at, including very specific stuff such formats of logos etc., and I'd definitely not be releasing anything directly without going through the PR people. I'm sure that members of the Royal Family are made extremely aware about 'brand image' and PR protocols, given its multi-£billion status and how central image is to that.
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What's the more believable story?
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If you know about photo editing then Kate's version of minor tweaks is not credible.
I'm not really interested but the "why" is the real question.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Eventually they will admit that photo isn't recent.
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You don't think it looks like software has bolted together more than one almost identical photo to pick the best of each person? My camera can do it for nighttime shots.
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Yes, these are not 'minor tweaks'. I even get slightly twitchy when fiddling with photos for French & friends on FB to 'tidy them up', and that never involves multiple 'tweaks' and wholesale cut/paste.
I suspect we're never going to see the original source(s).
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That is not "minor adjustments".
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Not to someone who messed around in darkrooms, but it is to someone that clicks a button and some software does it. Times change and all that.
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And I come back to the point that if that's what they did, they are total idiots for thinking this was acceptable (or even mildly competent - which it isn't), as well as their PR team for signing it off (if they were involved). I admit I don't understand the process of how it got to be released, but it was never going to be acceptable as photo reportage - they must have understood the significance (at least for 'the firm') of releasing a photoshopped photo after all the rumours swirling about.
If it were just a snap for their personal album or Facebook friends, it would be a completely different scenario.
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It's not about the effort made, it is about the amount of changes. There are strict rules about that for press releases. Even if she isn't aware (which I doubt) the people around her most certainly are.
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Does anyone seriously believe she actually edited it herself?
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I'm not sure it's idiotic, I think it's just woeful PR.
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