Recent content by Ealteacher

Thanks Rapscallion and Ed as a matter of interest only and in tune with the ‘reality compared to representation‘ vibe going on here;) film scenes that show people in lifts show them standing one behind another in rows facing the door. In the real life lifts I have been in, people arrange...

Thanks Ed Thanks for the reference photo. It illustrates your point about foreground and focus. It's a really interesting image for what it implies about real life visual experience compared to what you can do with a camera. I don't think that in real life one could ever be equally aware of...

Rapscallion Many thanks for your consideration of the photo. I think I understand you to mean (sorry I am very uninformed about technical issues of photography) the bottom figure of the boys is more out of focus than the figures further up in the photo. this wouldn't happen in real life - ie...

Too many people were on that beach. The image of them under discussion may misrepresent how close the people were to each other. I think both statements are true? I don't think people are expressing surprise at manipulation - certainly I am not. My point I think is that a lot of people were...

Hi Lensflare Thankyou for your reply. Please don't think that I am more concerned about the perspective and not caring about the mess. Of course I care about the mess and danger. My paternal grandmother died of the second wave of Spanish flu and the effect on the children she left behind was...

Thankyou for this reply, Nod. I agree with you in that I believe there were lots of people there on that day and also that they left an awful lot of horrible mess. So not fake news. I would really like your opinion on whether the top right beach photo makes the people appear closer together...

May I ask permission to quote some of the answers and the credentials of the posters to support my argument that the image was not to be taken literally. Please. without quoting names necessarily just saying that the answers were from people who know their stuff.

Very many thanks for the helpful information. I am thinking about "fake news". And about how there are deepening divisions in our society. The images of the crowded beach were shared on different facebook accounts and there is a lot of criticism of the people on the beach. How much of it...

Very many thanks for all the replies - I knew that photo did not look 'right'. Now I can see how it might have been done.

Hello everybody. I am getting a bit obsessed with the photograph I posted in my last post. It was posted on various sites and used to decry people who flouted social distancing. There is a question about whether the photo was actually from the coronavirus time. But in any case it just does...

Hello. I would be grateful for any comments on the following. A photograph appeared on social media recently which seems somehow ‘wrong’ to me. The people seem to be too close together. I think pseudo-tilt shift or other technique may have been used. Thankyou for any help.