nokia advert - sceptical photos

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is it just me being sceptical or does anyone else think that in the nokia advert with the blind guy taking photos they may not be photos from that device?

i mean the rollercoaster and under pier shots, the foreground/subject all perfectly exposed yet the sky not blown out. on a camera phone?

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I thought the same the first time I saw the advert, although I've believed for a long time that they manipulate adverts to get us onboard.
Remember all the hassle with food products looking bigger than they were?
If I remember correctly, there was an advert for the Canon 450D with a 18-55 IS kit lens that showed an amazing, sharp IQ landscape photo that's only possible on a much more expenesive lens.
Advertising makes me aware of a product, not to sell it to me.
They've used every means possible to market a product the most achievable way possible for years and I refuse to be sucked in.
Make me aware fine, I will then look into the product and see if it's suitable for me before giving the buggers my money.
 
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You can't believe much of what you see on TV, even the so-called 'reality' programmes, so I think you'd have to be rather gullible to believe what you see in an advert. They're trying to create interest in a product, or in a company, not produce a documentary.
 
Would depend on the actual advert wording as to whether it was potentially misleading or not perhaps?

If I ever get an N8 that works for long enough I'll go test it in some contrasty lighting conditions...
 
Not sure about the Nokia but a friend was showing me her iphone 4 a couple of days ago and it had an HDR setting which seemed to work really well.
 
Theres been a similar problem with the gaming industry. Where sony and EA got the biggest drilling for using computer generated cinematics and passing them off as gameplay. They still do it but its very sly, they will put the word gameplay in some sort of sentence on the screen while a cinematic is playing which is made in the same sort of view as what the game would show however because they dont directly say it is gameplay they can (sometimes) get away with not having to say at the bottom of the screen that its a cinematic that you will never see or even get near when playing the game.

The first thing i thought was that cant be possible on a camera phone.
 
You're not the only one who's supicious, how do we know he's even blind? Did he even take the shots? The shots used all look to be taken by a pro - horizpon is level in the pier shot, the DOF on the hand shot is nice and shallow. of course he could just be partially sighted and can see well enough to make those photos just like that, but I bet he doesn't use a mobile to do it.
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
You're not the only one who's supicious, how do we know he's even blind? Did he even take the shots? The shots used all look to be taken by a pro - horizpon is level in the pier shot, the DOF on the hand shot is nice and shallow. of course he could just be partially sighted and can see well enough to make those photos just like that, but I bet he doesn't use a mobile to do it.
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I can understand the possible questioning of the kit, although the ASA would be all over it if it was too obviously faked, but questioning the photographers blindness? That's a bit low isn't it?


Perhaps you might like to eat some 'umble pie:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12596142

At least do some bloody research first.
 
DemiLion said:
I can understand the possible questioning of the kit, although the ASA would be all over it if it was too obviously faked, but questioning the photographers blindness? That's a bit low isn't it?


Perhaps you might like to eat some 'umble pie:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12596142

At least do some bloody research first.
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What's wrong with questioning anything? I don't know him from Adam, how do I know he's blind? (In this example).

I'm quite happy to accept that he is blind, and that he does take good photos, I'm just as happy to accept that a TV advert may well be using atcors and a pro photographer to market a product. Makes no difference either way at the end of the day, since they're advertising a phone and not plugging him as a photographer.

I have no issue with him, it's TV/Advertising/Sales/Media that I am taking issue with.
 
FWIW, there's a momentary glimpse of a Google StreetView scene in central London in the current TV ad for the Samsung Galaxy phone.

It's not StreetView. I took it with my 5D :)
 
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