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)
OK…a few things….
(1) – we do not know if this was a mistake just not caught, i.e. – accidental clicking of the clone/healing tool kind of thing or a repositioning that was never completed properly. Only way to know that is to ask the retoucher if they remember.
(2) – Fashion is a very different animal that many others….I personally am not a fan of the “Photoshop the model to look perfect” look. No one is perfect, but some very impressionable people read these sources and take what they see very seriously. Taking out a blemish here or there I can see, but photoshopping body parts to look thinner or larger than they are…I’m not a big fan.
(3) While we all do make mistakes, I won’t go so far as to say this is inexcusable, but definitely not acceptable and should have been caught by a proofer or editor.
Vogue needs to contact: Ralph Smith Photography, Digital Department.
It’s a classic sign of the times – “it’s good enough”. Ralph Smith Photography would have done a far superior job!
wow, wonder how could a company as huge as vogue could have let something like that slip…i used to work in a magazine too, but my magazine is a long long way from vogue, but my magazine even it is a small company have tight guidelines regarding retouching an image, there are checks and double checks from the photographer, editor, and the digital artist. to me this is plain sloppy work
How can that possibly be a mistake? Those fingers had to be deliberately removed (probably to keep mom’s back line smooth and continuous — looks like the fingers would have broken the line). I don’t see how this can be anything but deliberately removing the fingers and hoping (a) no one would notice and/or (b) no one would care. Sloppy no matter what.
Looks like the photo here (http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/kate-moss-kiss-me-kate/#/magazine-gallery/kate-moss-wedding/3) is a little bit better……..
Looks fine to me – a lot of faux fuss as far as I can see.
Sorry Mark, it’s not the COVER shot. Here’s the REAL cover shot http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/kate-moss-kiss-me-kate/#/magazine-gallery/kate-moss-wedding/47