Another Photoshop fail
December 11th, 2008
I noticed this in the Guardian the other day. Can anyone spot what’s wrong?
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11 Comments
1. Charles Betz | December 11th, 2008 at 11:13 am
She’s probably took the mirroring backup function too literally…
2. lee | December 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
It’s plausible that the photo was taken into a mirror, thus reversing the mirror effect of the eye!
3. Andrew | December 11th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
It’s not photoshopped, actually. The photo was taken while the model was using this site.
4. Karl | December 12th, 2008 at 6:15 am
yeah, the pic could have easily just been flipped horizontally, so google.com reads the right way.
5. Andrew | December 12th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
That would seem like a lot more work than faking it. Faking it is probably the smartest thing to do for a pic like that. Just, you know, don’t fake it so badly.
6. Ian T | December 16th, 2008 at 10:32 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7785004.stm
The same eye, this time on Facebook…
7. fardip R | December 23rd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
THEIR IS NO IRIS! duhh!!
8. Mojojo Jojo | December 26th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
If the reflection of the monitor is in focus, the eyelashes should be out of focus, shouldn’t they?
9. Natasha | January 12th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
It’s still a pretty good picture…
10. reef | January 12th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
@Mojojo Jojo
Not necessarily, as effectively the eye is a convex mirror and therefore the resultant image of an object would be virtual and formed between the principal focus and the pole behind the eye (a quick internet search will reveal diagrams if this doesn’t make sense!).
Thus for such a reflection to appear sharp in a photograph (as is the case for any reflection), the camera would need to focus on the image of the object, rather than the object itself.
Therefore it would be possible to have both the eye and the image of the monitor in focus; although looking at the low depth of field of this image (i.e. that some eye lashes are in focus and others are not), in this case your statement may well still be correct.
11. emily | November 19th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
no eye lashes on the right botton side.
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