Catherine, the Princess of Wales. See credit at base of page. |
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Overzealous furore over Princess of Wales's botched photo-edited picture
Wednesday 24 May 2023
OMG amazing dog group photo by dog walker who was photographed taking the pic
You won't see a more impressive group dog photo and it's impromptu. It was taken by a dog walker whose name we don't know when out walking his group of dogs. He used his smart phone. Although the picture has been substantially photo-edited which he probably did himself in the phone before uploading it to social media where it ended up on Twitter, the source for me of the photo.
We don't know if he knew that he was being photographed while he photographed the dogs but they make a really great combination.
You can see that when he took the photograph, he was looking at the dogs over his phone. He is not looking at the dogs through the phone which is interesting. Perhaps he felt that he could control the dogs better that way. And my God he did an amazing job of controlling them for the photo and/or they were very obedient.
We don't know where it was taken either. It looks like a Mediterranean country to me. Italy perhaps.
Here are the pics. First the dog group photo and them him taking it.
The best dog group photo that you'll see. Image: Twitter. |
Everyone on Twitter who has seen it are as impressed as me and why not?
The photographer who took the best dog group photo at the time he took it! Image: Twitter. |
Wednesday 20 April 2022
Picture of a giant cat in the middle of the road!
A nice bit of photo-editing from Matt McCarthy in North Carolina, USA. I should imagine that it was quite time consuming to do this photo-editing. You have to get the edges clean and that means a lot of meticulous deletions unless he uses software that does it all for him. But in my experience the best software is imperfect. I am probably wrong but this looks like three images sandwiched together: the background buildings, the cat and the foreground people. He has built up the image from the background creating three layers in all.
Giant cat sleeps in the middle of the road. Image: Matt McCarthy. |
Wednesday 18 August 2021
Catnap in a model village
Catnap in a model village. Image in the public domain. |
This should be 'a cat napping in a model village' but I wanted the title to be a bit ambivalent. The picture is an example of an unreal cat picture without photo-editing. That's unusual. Below is the usual giant cat picture.
CLICK TO SEE A PAGE OF PHOTO-EDITED CAT GIANTS.
Here is one example:
Giant Cat. By fransditaa on Instagram |
Monday 9 August 2021
Photoshopped gigantic domestic cat
Photoshopped gigantic domestic cat. |
Sunday 20 June 2021
Cats sleeping on a toy train set
Is this real or a very good example of photo-editing? Answer: it's photo-editing but it's good enough to look real. It is a variation on the giant killer kitty theme when monster cats roam around the city smashing building to bits and squashing pedestrians as they scream in terror. B-movie stuff but in the home using a train set!
It is a nice picture deserving of publishing here. I've taken the liberty in presuming that it is in the public domain i.e. free of intellectual property rights but if I am wrong, please tell me in a comment.
Cats sleeping on a toy train set. Picture from Reddit.com and uploaded by r/photoshopbattles, which tells me that it is unreal but it is a close call as it is done so well. |
Photo-editing images of cats has become slightly problematic as sometimes you can't tell if an outstanding cat is genuine or fake. The most outstanding example of photoshopping cats occurred around 14 years ago when I think it was a woman in New Zealand or Australia used Photoshop to give the appearance that domestic cats had been painted. They were called 'pained cats' and they were all over the internet.
I have just recalled who was involved. Heather Bush, was the named co-author (the illustrator) of the best-selling book (the photographer and illustrator) titled: Why Painted Cat. The other author was Burton Silver. The trouble with the book is that it misleads people into believing that the cats really were painted. That was upsetting to some people.Wednesday 26 May 2021
Black cat's eyes spell FOOD
Photo: Reddit.com. |
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