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 10/13/2006 02:32:01 PM · #1
Mom accuses photographer of photoshopping cleavage onto her 7 year old daughter's school picture

Edited to correct the kid's age. Damn short term memory!

Message edited by author 2006-10-13 14:41:32.
 10/13/2006 02:34:16 PM · #2
really wierd....and creepy.... is their someone wierdo in their messing with little girls pictures
 10/13/2006 02:34:22 PM · #3
Weird, just looks like shadow to me, 2 shadows from her jacket overlapping.
 10/13/2006 02:34:42 PM · #4
what? that's weird.
 10/13/2006 02:34:46 PM · #5
LOL That's just goofy! Oh and the story says she is seven years old.
10/13/2006 02:35:16 PM · #6
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
Weird, just looks like shadow to me, 2 shadows from her jacket overlapping.


Yep, that's what I thought too - from a strobe on either side
 10/13/2006 02:36:06 PM · #7
Looks like shadow to me too
 10/13/2006 02:37:06 PM · #8
But wait guys, the local news people showed it to photography professionals! How can you contradict what they say?
 10/13/2006 02:37:33 PM · #9
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
Weird, just looks like shadow to me, 2 shadows from her jacket overlapping.


Yep, that's what it looks like to me too. The shadow seems pretty dark, but it does just look like a shadow.
 10/13/2006 02:37:54 PM · #10
Shouldn't it take all of 10 seconds to pull up the original and determine if it was photoshoped?

SC, they need you on this case!
 10/13/2006 02:38:55 PM · #11
Doesn't the left shadow look a little odd? It looks more like discoloration on the skin than a shadow. Just a really rough edge compared to the one on the right.

I will also say it does seem strange that the photo company would rather try to recreate the scene than just show the original. Wouldn't the second be a lot easier?

Message edited by author 2006-10-13 14:40:08.
 10/13/2006 02:44:05 PM · #12
i assume it's the digital original that they believe to be tampered with.

Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Doesn't the left shadow look a little odd? It looks more like discoloration on the skin than a shadow. Just a really rough edge compared to the one on the right.

I will also say it does seem strange that the photo company would rather try to recreate the scene than just show the original. Wouldn't the second be a lot easier?
10/13/2006 02:46:27 PM · #13
shadow or not, where the heck is the kid's shirt?
 10/13/2006 02:46:55 PM · #14
Well to me it looks like a really bad photo all around. if it was photoshopped then that person needs some seriuous training(and of course the mandatory beatings and whatnot for being a creepo) because it is terrible. if it occured naturally wasn't the photograper looking at thier photos to see the shadows and fix it.
 10/13/2006 02:48:19 PM · #15
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
Well to me it looks like a really bad photo all around. if it was photoshopped then that person needs some seriuous training(and of course the mandatory beatings and whatnot for being a creepo) because it is terrible. if it occured naturally wasn't the photograper looking at thier photos to see the shadows and fix it.


It's actually a little hard for me to see it on this craptastic monitor I've got at work, but I have to agree, at the very least the lighting is terrible.
 10/13/2006 02:49:15 PM · #16
Impossible to tell without seeing a much larger version. Either way (bad lighting or bad photoshopping) the studio comes out looking pretty bad.
 10/13/2006 02:49:16 PM · #17
Yeah, I heard about that earlier... sounds crazy to me! Personally I think the parents did not dress her appropriately... as far as the "cleavage" is concerned, it looks like a shadow to my unprofessional, untrained eye!
 10/13/2006 02:49:58 PM · #18
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Doesn't the left shadow look a little odd? It looks more like discoloration on the skin than a shadow. Just a really rough edge compared to the one on the right.

I will also say it does seem strange that the photo company would rather try to recreate the scene than just show the original. Wouldn't the second be a lot easier?


I agree it's odd, but where is the motive? Why would any photographer add that much clevage to a 9 year old and give the photo to the mom!?!?
 10/13/2006 02:53:15 PM · #19
kinda hard to see, but it does look like two shadows from the jacket overlapping to me. does come across as rather creepy though...

of course, if i was the parent, i'd be a little more upset with how bad the photo was of my child. did you catch how out of focus the poor girls face was? yikes...
 10/13/2006 02:56:28 PM · #20
Why doesn't this mom just sign the child up for 're-take' day?
$$ Maybe the motive but it sure looks like 'just' a shadow on a bad shot.
 10/13/2006 03:04:59 PM · #21
Originally posted by kudzu:

of course, if i was the parent, i'd be a little more upset with how bad the photo was of my child. did you catch how out of focus the poor girls face was? yikes...


thats funny
 10/13/2006 03:11:54 PM · #22
Don't think I'm siding with the people who think there was photoshopping involved.

Local news coverage is hardly a bastion of truth and thoroughness. We rarely have the whole story.
 10/13/2006 03:16:09 PM · #23
Can you imagine shooting 900 kids in an elementary, and then opening every one of them in Photoshop to process them?

They say that any publicity is good publicity. I hope that it works that way for this company.

Why would she even go to the news? Anything for fame I suppose.
 10/13/2006 03:17:16 PM · #24
LOL. It's a shadow. Nobody's THAT bad at Photoshop. Well, maybe the "photo professionals" they asked. :-/
 10/13/2006 03:21:52 PM · #25
what's really sad is that this photographer's name is being dragged through the mud just because of bad lighting. Man- it's one thing to have bad lighting but another to be accused of sexual PS manipulation on a child.
Tell that mother her seven year old shouldn't be wearing such a low cut shirt if she's gonna throw a fit about this.
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