Movie mistakes in "photographers" in TV/Movies

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Just watching Gossip Girls and saw this clip and actually made me laugh.

Blinding the actors aside, what is he trying to take a photo of that close with a 70-200 ? :lol:

 
Any of the new wave of police/forensics are terrible; CSI, NCIS, Law and Order, Without a Trace.
Any 1 scene has loads of mistakes, but they are entertaining :D
 
My favorite was a film years back, sadly the name is long forgotten, the good guys x-rayed a photograph to prove the killer had a broken arm! wonderfull! Wayne
 
It's just entertainment. Hollywood and others get many things wrong. Just sit back and enjoy the program, even with mistakes
 
Had to smile at a news article on Scottish news last night, it was something about the Royal college of Surgeons in Edinburgh, they had a reporter outside being filmed and as he started to tell the story the camera zoomed in on the metal nameplate for the college. A large bit of bird crap was on the nameplate, :lol: you think they might have wiped it off before filming or left that bit off the film.
 
i have to say the best thing ive seen was in one of the newer Omen movies.

the photographer printed digital images in a darkroom :-s

didnt understand that
 
it makes me laugh when films have a tog in with d-slrs and large zoom lenses then they put a funny point and shoot camera noise over the top of the original mirror flip up noise lol
 
Racing Stripes, cracking film, plenty of press togs to laugh at there.
Dean:)
 
is that not a cartoon?

EDIT: I realise now I'm mistaken haha
 
at least in the OP's picture the guy is holding the slr correctly. apparently actors won't be told how to hold the camera, they always have their own ideas, hence the "slr as compact" style.

oh, has anyone else noticed that all the csi series and ncis all use nikon cameras. im assuming that nikon has got some sort of deal with them.
 
Spudgun said:
at least in the OP's picture the guy is holding the slr correctly. apparently actors won't be told how to hold the camera, they always have their own ideas, hence the "slr as compact" style.

oh, has anyone else noticed that all the csi series and ncis all use nikon cameras. im assuming that nikon has got some sort of deal with them.
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Would they not realise after the strain on their hands that a better way may be possible?:lol:
 
I'm sure it applies to everything else remotely technical shown on TV/Film as well. We all know the ins and outs of photography so it's obvious when we see a 'mistake'.

The thing that really interests me in CSI New York is when they zoom into an image to some insane level to pick out a detail. They once zoomed into a skyscraper window to pick out a person stood in a room, I thought it was clearly ridiculous, and living in Wiltshire I couldn't get my head around how possible that would be. But we went to NYC the other week and when I got home I was staggered at how much detail you could pick out of individual skyscraper windows at night even though my shots were not specifically taken of them. Whilst they probably went a step too far for artistic purposes, it's certainly possible.
 
Amp34 said:
Would they not realise after the strain on their hands that a better way may be possible?:lol:
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But these are luvvies we're talking about, full of their own...... er, egos. They've got hyperdeveloped wrist muscles from holding up little mirrors. 'least I think that's it.
 
Spudgun said:
, has anyone else noticed that all the csi series and ncis all use nikon cameras. im assuming that nikon has got some sort of deal with them.
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Maybe they just need the cameras to focus properly??? :lol::lol::lol:
 
ukaskew said:
I'm sure it applies to everything else remotely technical shown on TV/Film as well. We all know the ins and outs of photography so it's obvious when we see a 'mistake'.

The thing that really interests me in CSI New York is when they zoom into an image to some insane level to pick out a detail. They once zoomed into a skyscraper window to pick out a person stood in a room, I thought it was clearly ridiculous, and living in Wiltshire I couldn't get my head around how possible that would be. But we went to NYC the other week and when I got home I was staggered at how much detail you could pick out of individual skyscraper windows at night even though my shots were not specifically taken of them. Whilst they probably went a step too far for artistic purposes, it's certainly possible.
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And then you have the case of the blurry picture made of about 100 pixels, "lets enhance it to see who it is" *preses a few keyboard buttons* and wouldn't you know the blurry mess becomes an almost perfect higher resolution face...

Wish my interpolation would do that! (That's one thing in films that really gets my goat!):lol:
 
Uneducated_Rick said:
Any of the new wave of police/forensics are terrible; CSI, NCIS, Law and Order, Without a Trace.
Any 1 scene has loads of mistakes, but they are entertaining :D
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My favourite scene was where they took the reflection in someone's eye zoomed in on it and then looked at a house across the road to the point where they could see the house number! I think it was on BONES
 
Amp34 said:
And then you have the case of the blurry picture made of about 100 pixels, "lets enhance it to see who it is" *preses a few keyboard buttons* and wouldn't you know the blurry mess becomes an almost perfect higher resolution face...

Wish my interpolation would do that! (That's one thing in films that really gets my goat!):lol:
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Yes it really annoys me as well, they must have a newer version of Genuine Fractals than I do. Wayne
 
The Wire is quite accurate surprisingly! They even have the right kind of camera (30yr old Nikons!) Tisn't really funny, but at least someones trying to be accurate.
 
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