There’s a commercial featuring “famous fitness expert John Blaisedow” that runs on several (maybe only one) cable networks that I see.
It always looks to me that his head is superimposed on a body in his opening shot.Seems to be a different color and or strange angle between head/neck and body.I understand why they’d do it to find a “perfect body” for their ad.
Has anybody seen this,esp.someone with sharp eyes for doctored photos?Anyone heard of a debunking of the shot?
I tried googling the name,turns up nothing.
If that’s really him,he needs to work on his neck.That shot seems all wrong for a 15/16 inch one.
And if the image you’re referring to is the one that appears on the first page of this link, you’re right, it looks a bit strange. But I don’t think it’s a composite. Rather I think the odd look is the result of a number of factors - he has a strange head to body size ratio and his neck is very long and slender - but the thing that contributes the most to the fake look of the image…the make up artist did a terrible job.
Looks like they hired a make up person who can do faces, but not bodies. His face and neck look like they’ve been treated (powdered) to reduce glare and give an overall soft look to the skin, but then they smeared his body with baby oil to accentuate the rippling manliness of his physique. The two treatments don’t blend at all and it gives him a very strange appearance.
I see the commercials all the time, and EVERY time they come one, I can’t help but notice how HUGE his head is. That, and how fake some of the before/after images of his customers look.
Let me tell you a quick trick that can help you spot retouched and altered photographs without technical training.
Save the picture to your hard drive then open it with your favorite full-featured image editor (e.g. photoshop, GIMP, paintshop). Apply each of the edge and contour filters, one at a time, undo’ing each before doing the next. Inspect the picture for unexpected differences in the processed edges, contours, and textures of comparable regions. I won’t explain all the technicalities, but in 90%+ of all cases of retouching, you’ll find a very clear discrepancy to investigate.
There are also somewhat trickier analyses you can do with the color of regions and specific shades in the palette. Not only do paste jobs fail to truly match colors, but they are almost always illuminated by different light sources
My conclusion, after a 60-second edge/contour analysis:
While I always thought that photo looked like a bad paste job on TV, I didn’t find any obvious telltales. If it’s a paste job, it’s a good one - and if they could do that, they could make it look less fake. I do see signs of some minor retouching, but it’s not significant. It looks like they just smoothed away some skin blemishes or veins. Someone else can do a more thorough technical examination.