Happy Friday. Over at Vogue magazine, it seems the retouching crew was a little remiss with Mario Testino’s shot of Kate Moss and her daughter Lila –seems they…er…left off a few of her daughters fingers. Or worse, that her daughters fingers actually fused into her mom’s back.
So, we all know Photoshop happens. They’re in there taking out zits and making people skinnier than they really are, and taking out wrinkles and on and on. Yes, yes, we all “know” this. But is “oops, I just left off a few body parts” excusable? I don’t know where I stand on this. It’s a beautiful shot, but the sophomoric blunder isn’t lost on me.
Do YOU even care, or is it just expected that there will be some mistakes and faux pas along the way, so we should just get on with it anyway….?
(faux pas via Jezebel)
It’s a little creepy. Maybe they outsourced it to a far away land and didn’t have time to fix it. The problem with retouching, like with things like drawing and painting too, is knowing when to stop.
This is a magazine cover, not a tiny, overlooked image. The cover shot is THE singular shot of the entire issue. There’s no way it’s an oversight. It was a deliberate choice. A WRONG choice, IMO. I’d love to see the original, but it’s hard to imagine there was no better way to complete the image.
As a portrait photographer, I often use photoshop to create somewhat idealized images of my clients. But you have to have a sense of proportion and taste, and balance the idealized with reality. This image fails on that count. it’s a beautiful image, unwisely or perhaps unskillfully retouched. It’s hard to say if it’s the retoucher’s or the editors fault for making it that way (if the editor instructed the retoucher, the editor is responsible), but the editor is ultimately responsible for the cover…
All I’m going to say is.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA what foooools!!
I’ve just spent a day trying to photoshop an image and keep going back and forth because it doesn’t look natural and then vogue puts this out. hahahaha
Laugh or cry people laugh or cry.
It looks a little like “Little Shop of Horrors” to me. The lighting is great, the pose is nice, the expressions horrible, and the “oops” moment, as one poster above me stated, “inexcusable”. But, thats just me.
It seems that maybe the whole forearm was added (or repositioned) because it looks incredibly long compared to the top of her arm. It is a gorgeous shot and I doubt that the average reader looks close enough to notice the fingers going off into nothingness. It happens. But I do agree that with all of the people this shot had to pass by, someone should have caught it before it went to press.