Hey CBS, Just Take Pictures of Katie Couric With This
I... don't even know what to say about this. A new feature in HP cameras is that the camera can make your subject look thinner. You can "adjust the slimming level" and the "effect is subtle—subjects still look like themselves." Just like removing red eye!
Via entelein.
Via entelein.
posted by mo pie at 1:41 PM
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Wow! And it also gives you an attractive, narrow, pointed head!
Ugh, and shudder...
And why do they always use thin models when they're demonstrating these things? Creepy, creepy, creepy.
I overlayed the "fat" and "thin" images in PhotoShop and it looks like they're just adjusting the width of the photo so it's narrower and leaving the height the same.
So messed up I don't even know how to comment.
You can do the same or better with your "own" figure and post it on your website. www.virtualmodel.com/ ivillage also has this feature.
Address correction: www.myvirtualmodel.com/en/index.htm
why no use someone really gobby fat in the ad? not some brooke burke wannabe! i bet this would be invaluable for anorexics who could use it to see if they should cut out the 4 raisins a day and only eat 2 toast points. anyone care to try it out on mary-kate olsen?
OK, people -- hear me out on this one.
The way I look at it, they're never going to fix the original movie cameras because they were probably designed to make MEN look BIGGER on camera -- they didn't care about WOMEN looking SMALLER in person.
And one of the reasons they (producers, fashionistas, and such) shriek and froth about women losing 20 pounds to get each role/new dress/whatever in H-wood (and NYC, and Paris, Milan, etc.) is because the camera allegedly adds those notorious 10 pounds every time the shutter closes.
So why don't we use these new cameras so we can look normal in person -- and not have to resort to anorexia so we can look normal when we go on TV?
I'm just sayin'.
littlem, I don't think that the cameras were designed to make anyone look bigger or smaller... it's simply a function of how the lens works. The wide-angle lens you'd use to get a whole room in a picture, for example, will make everyone in that room appear a bit shorter/wider. I'm at work right now, or I'd look up the technical info, but you get the idea.
Its all about fake it till you make it, or so they say. Let's just keep inventing new ways to fake it so we can hide from reality, shall we?
This is SO disturbing. Perhaps we're all meant to create a fictitious past, like in Blade Runner? But the really scary thing is, people will actually buy this camera.
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