Doctored Images

This image I chose is of Tupac and Osama Bin Laden! At first look, I very much thought it was real. The overall image looks as if Tupac and Osama had actually ever met. Although the image has some noise added in the background the overall composition of Osama’s head on the body is very well put together. The reason I can tell that Tupac was originally there is because of this head posture and the way he’s leaning. While on the other hand the guy is still therefore making it easier for someone to simply replace the head with Osama’s head. Also, for very obvious reasons, Osama would not be found in public taking a picture! The only thing that catches my attention about this picture is the fact that “Osama’s” arm is slightly a different skin tone then his head. On top of that the skin of the arm is very clear and a bit darker which doesn’t suit Osama’s head since it’s a bit lighter and his facial hair doesn’t match with a clean arm.  But this was on of the pictures that I really thought was funny and well put together!

This picture is an example of a picture that I found was done very poorly, along with the other several pictures that follow. Many have incidents where the editors forget to change the amount of fingers on someones hands or forget to remove the hand altogether.  In the following picture thought, it is a case of leaving the head all by itself floating alongside Brad Pitt’s head. Brad Pitt’s son located on the right of him is again seen on the left of him, which was obviously accidently not corrected properly. This was actually published in a magazine, and I can’t believe people never spotted out the double heads.

This next image is very much accurate until you see that through the device the man is holding up, you cannot see the girl in pinks face. The picture that you can see through the device is only of the couple but in reality you see that she is there standing very much in between the couple, therefore there shouldn’t be any reason as to why she didn’t show up in the picture with them. Once again this image was also, found in a magazine.

Overall, from this assignment of looking up doctored images, it makes me realize what is real and what is not real. Some people are very talented with perfection shots and you never know what is real or not. For instance, often in newspapers or magazines or anywhere in advertisement you see pictures of “Before” and “After” images of people and now I always stop and think, if its even real? Its very hard to judge online these days until you see something in front of your own eyes because of the many things you can perfect over the internet using special programs. In this case, you cans that Miley Cycrus’ hand is placed around Nick Jonas’ body but there is another image of a hand placed around him. This very much screams out loud that it is a fake picture and that those 2 celebrities were photoshoped together. Overall though, I think its actually funny to see what kind of mistakes people leave out and what actually gets published!