Why are there more photos that have to be "over the top" these days

[Theo Sulphate]

... Way back when, every photo in National Geographic had to have someone in a red sweater somewhere in the scene. Nowadays there are plenty of fake-looking HDR images being published in the same magazine. Doing something corny is not restricted to amateurs. It comes in waves.

When National Geographic repositioned the Pyramids of Giza, it was the photographer who complained:

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[Sirius Glass]

... Way back when, every photo in National Geographic had to have someone in a red sweater somewhere in the scene. Nowadays there are plenty of fake-looking HDR images being published in the same magazine. Doing something corny is not restricted to amateurs. It comes in waves.

When National Geographic repositioned the Pyramids of Giza, it was the photographer who complained:

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I would have thrown a fit is someone did that to my photographs.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

Why are there more photos that have to be "over the top" these days

I would have thrown a fit is someone did that to my photographs.

Frankly I think this is a bit more interesting aspect:

"Although lesser discussed, Gahan reportedly paid the men to repeatedly ride across the frame to get the photo he wanted."

As for accuracy, did he title the photo: "men I paid to walk back and forth in front of these pyramids"? Somehow I doubt it. He was probably more than pleased to allow people to think he serendipitously "discovered" the shot.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

As for accuracy, did he title the photo: "men I paid to walk back and forth in front of these pyramids"? Somehow I doubt it. He was probably more than pleased to allow people to think he serendipitously "discovered" the shot.

Fakery at all levels.

I have it on good authority that Louis bribed a shoe-shine boy and his customer on Boulevard du Temple to stand still for ten minutes for the photograph.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

Fakery at all levels.

I have it on good authority that Louis bribed a shoe-shine boy and his customer on Boulevard du Temple to stand still for ten minutes for the photograph.

So it's ALL based on a sham???? A dirty rotten fake??

 

[Theo Sulphate]

So it's ALL based on a sham???? A dirty rotten fake??

Well, you know those Moon photos...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Frankly I think this is a bit more interesting aspect:

"Although lesser discussed, Gahan reportedly paid the men to repeatedly ride across the frame to get the photo he wanted."

As for accuracy, did he title the photo: "men I paid to walk back and forth in front of these pyramids"? Somehow I doubt it. He was probably more than pleased to allow people to think he serendipitously "discovered" the shot.

While that could be staging a photograph, it is not the same as moving pyramids.

 

[Dr Croubie]

While that could be staging a photograph, it is not the same as moving pyramids.

Isn't there a fauxtoshop plugin for that nowadays though?

 

[Sirius Glass]

While that could be staging a photograph, it is not the same as moving pyramids.

Isn't there a fauxtoshop plugin for that nowadays though?

There are Fauxto$hop plugins that can completely design images without any photographic image inputs. That is why it is called Fauxtography.

 

[markbarendt]

There are Fauxto$hop plugins that can completely design images without any photographic image inputs. That is why it is called Fauxtography.

Electric painting maybe?