Quote Originally Posted by Oneonone View Post
So put your head in the sand if you wish but that is how it is done!
Well blow me down oneoneone, you are right! As this is quite interesting I have posted some of the photos here to show how well it is done and how it convinced me. But your words made me look a lot closer at them to figure out what is going on.

Here is a photo of lily - see how well that shadow is put in behind her? - very convincing! But if you look closer you'll notice that she is tilted slightly to the right, she hasn't been put in standing straight. Still, to accurately manually trace around her body with a selection tool to cut her out of the original photo and drag her across is very difficult. You can never do it with perfect accuracy, which means in the photo you drag her across into, you have to manually go around with a clone tool and heal all the innaccurate joins. Which is just as much or more work to do. The cost for this specialist work would be up to the same as the shop charges for the girl per hour. Hey! nothing wrong with that, in fact it is a credit to 533 that they go to this effort to show their girls like this.



And then you see her apparently sitting on the sofa, ie, interacting with the environment she isn't even in! And with a shadow from her put in too. Very well done! I assume she ws sitting on a bed in the brothel - but the lighting on her is rather good - how can Angie be taking these?



Here, however, the shadow from Lily is coming towards us, when the lighting on lily is from the front, so that is an inconsistency, which again shows that you are right oneoneone.



Here with Jodie it is less convincing, the light on her is flat compared to the room - but hey! it is still well done!



Here with Selina, again the shadow from her is coming towards us - even though the angle of it cleverly matches the angle of the light coming in through the door, there is no light source behind her at that angle to account for her shadow, ie, the shadow has been put in. But again, this is very good work!



I mean, look at the tricky shape of the shadow on the bed behind Jodie - he's accounted for the distorted shape of her having her hand on her hip (but overlooked putting in a shadow behind the lowest part of her left leg.) But all this is alot of highly skilled work that I didn't think they'd have the budget for - or at least want to pay it!



I don't know quite where he gets the shadows from - exceeds my basic knowledge! He's even curved the shadow to account for the curve of the mattress and the wooden frame that she isn't in the same room as. This is beyond the call of duty for a $150 per hour brothel webpage - compare it, for example, with the tripe masquerading as photos on the Ginza website, or 5*.