Honestly, I’m wondering if the picture on the right isn’t the original and the one on the left is the one that’s been altered. In the right picture (the IMAX one) their skin tones look more natural (uneven, not airbrushed), and the lighting looks more realistic to me. I think the one on the left is the “corrected” one. It’s obvious that their skin tones have been smoothed out and Hermione’s hair has been tamed back so that more of Neville’s face could be seen (painted in to fill what was obscured).
I don’t think her breasts were enhanced for the picture on the right–I think they were purposely de-emphasized for the picture on the left! :eek:
It’s entirely possible that someone looked at the original picture and gave the graphics person instructions to make Hermione look a little less… prounounced. It is a family movie, after all.
Heck, I’m an amateur and I’ve spent plenty of time tweaking little things like that to make a project look just right. And this is a promotional poster for a movie that will earn hundreds of millions of dollars, so I can definitely see someone obsessing over every single ‘trivial’ detail. Neville’s collar being changed is further support for the photo on the left being the more altered version–it looks ‘better’ (more well defined) in the left picture.
I don’t doubt it — but surely they took a dozen photos, and could have substituted a more palatable shot. I highly doubt they were all in the same room when that photo was taken anyway, just composite in a different take.
All I know is, given how incredibly badly done the (apparently hand-painted) billboard I saw in Cairo for Goblet of Fire was, I’m glad I probably won’t be seeing their version of this.
Of course they are two completely different photos…it’s obvious.
Dozens of nearly identical photos would have been taken, with many different but nearly identical posters also made.
I was surprised in looking through this thread how long it took for someone to mention that they are two different photos.
It’s not digital photo editing (though certainly all the photos are digitally fine-tuned); they are two completely different photos taken at very nearly the same time…whether one was chosen b/c it made her breasts more prominent might be a source of speculation, of course.
I’m sure there will be a countdown of sorts next year leading up to her birthday by certain umm less refined members of society (as there was for the Olsen Twins).
Sure I’m no expert, but it looks obvious to me that those are the same picture that’s been altered slightly. Everyone is in the same pose and has the same facial expression in each. The Imax one looks to be the orginal or at least an earlier version of the photoshopped pics.
They brought Neville forward a little and when they did that they had to “repair” that side of Hermoine, making it look like they downsized her bosom. You can tell the line on that side is too smooth and unnatural looking. They also enhanced the color of her sweater and her facial coloring. They enhanced and softened everyone else’s facial coloring as well. Ron looks a bit too washed out in the Imax one and Ginny, Neville and Luna are a bit too red but everyone is more flesh-toned in the other poster. The background is also much fuzzier in the Imax one. It looks like they paid the most attention to Hermoine, she also stands out more because she’s not wearing dark clothes like everyone else.
“Everybody freeze in position… ok… ready…” camera snaps 20 photos in 15 seconds, nearly identical
the photos are clearly taken at the same time with the same camera, and some parts of the image may be from the same actual photo, but some of the image I think is from at least one other photo taken in immediate succession.
If Neville’s position changed (and it did) then he actually managed to move his body without changing his body position or changing his facial expression. Damn, he’s good.
As I said in my previous post, it’s most likely that they took several shots, then took the best parts of each to make a composite. “So and so looks great in photo 4, but this other guy looks weird, so we’ll take them from photo 7…” etc. Then they could have modified the composite for the two posters, keeping most of one but substituting in bits from other photos.
I am familiar with both photography practices (multiple shots) and digital retouching. That said, and assuming expert photographers and editors were used, I don’t think there is any sure way to tell if & how the posters were altered. It could be either. There’s no smoking gun to give either technique away.
It’s only amateur efforts that provide telltale signs.
Personally, I think a combination of techniques was used. The best face, best body, best angle were combined, then tweaked carefully. It’s what I would do. But I can’t prove that theory, either.
Yes, each person was photographed seperatly. The individual images are all edited and then placed together.
Believe me, there are at least 50 versions of this laying around the WB offices, with the kids in different places and different sizes.
