Mpix Advertisement Goes Overboard...

[Abel]

How many times have we heard clients say "Make me look thinner..."? Well I know I have heard it a lot and once I opened up my newest issue of Digital Photo Magazine this Mpix ad jumped right out at me...

Notice the little girls right leg is SO much shorter than her left leg!

Wait... the girl's right foot looks HALF as long as the left foot!

So when did Canon make cone shaped lenses? I must have missed the memo...

The woman's right leg is so stretched it almost looks like she has a second knee cap. No bueno.


Anyways.. I just found it ironic that an advertisement directed AT photographers IN a photography magazine had such a botched edit. Hey let's try to make the photographer slimmer but who cares if we make the little girl look like a some sort of freakshow with different sized legs and feet.

They should have left the photographer alone... Nobody minds a few extra pounds.

[KenJulio]

I'd have to question on having them do any post work....

Look at the photographers right outer thigh...it must have been the same guy designing the lens who did the plastic surgery on her leg, unless jaws took a chunk out of it.

[SCone]

The little girl needs to see a doctor about that swollen calf.

[Abel]

The little boy is smiling so much because he knows he's the only NORMAL one in the family... hehe.

[KenJulio]

It looks more like a dislocated knee cap

[Melany]

It's not nice to make fun of deformed people

[PhotoByLeal]

the PS is so bad the kid is missing HALF his FACE, half and eye, cheek & ear!

Abel, why don't you write to MPIX and show all the GREAT PP they did RIGHT!

later....

[z-monster]

Originally Posted by PhotoByLeal

Abel, why don't you write to MPIX and show all the GREAT PP they did RIGHT!

X2

[d2creative]

There is just NOTHING right about that image. So so bad.

[picman]

Looks like the perfect submission to:
Photoshop Disasters

A daily stop for me-- keeps me honest

[wondershots]

Dang! Now I have to go through my magazines and look at ALL MPIX advertisements.

[Nikonfan]

I am amazed at how many bad examples are used in photography magazines and on brochures for lenses, etc...

[Rson]

I wonder if the photog in the picture knows?

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[Jake]

Originally Posted by Rson

I wonder if the photog in the picture knows?

...

She does now.

[andyz]

I think it is a bad photo, but the subject isn't the people. With the girls leg bent I don't see that it is shorter. And her right foot is in the shadow and obscured by the camera. The woman's leg is in front of a chair that matches her boots, and the chair has something on it that matches her pants. My point is it is a bad photo of them or the PS work is meant to creat plausible appearances and since they are the subject, save the cost of post production. I don't know why they'd make any of those adjustments in the first place. Maybe to get the photographers talking about Mpix? (Well, that wouldn't be in a favorable light. But hey, I'm not in advertising.)