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face swap on photoshop
Is it usual for professional photographers to swap faces when doing a family portrait? My family went to have professional photos taken. Myself and my husband look decent enough in one photo but our daughter has an unhappy look on her face. The photographer said she would switch out her with one from another photo. I thought this was crazy. Just feel that I will always look at the picture thinking my daughter was really smiling at something else and not my husband and I. The photographer said this was standard. Is it? It seems creepy.
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Permalink Reply by Mad Max on -
It's common for photographers to take several shots of the same scene so they get a better chance of a good shot. Sometimes they combine bits from each image they take to give the best result as the lighting could be iffy on one but the rest of the shot could be perfect, so they'd either enhance the lighting or merge it with the better lit shot to make it look better.
Swapping faces is quite common too, some times you get one shot where someones expression isn't right but it's perfect in another, so they swap them around. It may sound creepy but it's just the way things are done these days. Back in the day you'd have to go back and have more shots taken to get that perfect shot, or have to pay for expensive physical imposing work done in a photo lab. Photoshop makes things much easier, cheaper and faster these days! Same result, new technique.
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Permalink Reply by Phil Curtis on -
Sounds great, except for one thing. Is it a photo any more, or just a 'family image'. I believe the Stepford Wifes would use these same photos around their houses to. Welcome to the Matrix :/body>
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