You know which ones. That jong fly fisherman without sunglasses is definitely not smoking a pipe. Nor is that suave chap with the hot brunette on his arm.
Photoshop Tobacco Ads
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Well damn, now that you mention it I do see 'em!
LOL
But I was hoping for some funny parody or something here,
like this,
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/new-dunhill-tobacco-collaboration-wthe-rolling-stones
Or something along these lines:
I don't have any photoshop skillz, but if I did I would try to make some parodies,
a lot of victims await,
like
We Sexy
Rampage
BDSM Flake
...add a dominatrix with a whip instead of the regular dude and voila!
I like the way they did up this Small Faces cd boxset...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgLrvJf7ksA
LOL
But I was hoping for some funny parody or something here,
like this,
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/new-dunhill-tobacco-collaboration-wthe-rolling-stones
Or something along these lines:
I don't have any photoshop skillz, but if I did I would try to make some parodies,
a lot of victims await,
like
We Sexy
Rampage
BDSM Flake
...add a dominatrix with a whip instead of the regular dude and voila!
I like the way they did up this Small Faces cd boxset...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgLrvJf7ksA
:
I tell potential clients that their customers can spot stock photos from a block away. It's just exceptionally bad business practice to use stock art. It insults your customer's intelligence, it tells them that you don't care about your product, and it tells them that you are too cheap to hire a photographer (who will make your product look great, BTW). Then, of course, there's the problem when the stock art that you used starts showing up in other ads.
Here's the Sutliff ad. The ad itself looks great. Beautiful typography, very classy:
Here's the stock art that they started with:
And, oh my! Other people have used the same photo...but...no pipe!
Now, I actually find the ads to be amusing. But I'm not your typical Sutliff customer, either. In fact, I've only ever bought one tin of Sutliff, "Great Outdoors", which I like a lot.
Here's the Sutliff ad. The ad itself looks great. Beautiful typography, very classy:
Here's the stock art that they started with:
And, oh my! Other people have used the same photo...but...no pipe!
Now, I actually find the ads to be amusing. But I'm not your typical Sutliff customer, either. In fact, I've only ever bought one tin of Sutliff, "Great Outdoors", which I like a lot.
woodsroad is a fabulous photographer from a sample of his work I've seen. Sutliff and others would do well
to hire him to do their advertising photos. It would pay off. It is intriguing the way photoshop has revised the
way we see photos, once the essence of true documentation, though even pre-photoshop, images were widely
and significantly manipulated. I know I presume photoshop where it hasn't been used. A recent ad shows a
guy perched on an impossibly narrow ledge on the side of a rock face. I just assumed they'd clicked him there
at no risk to his person. It turns out, he's a climber who often scales shear faces with no safety lines; it's what
he does. But images are presumed doctored until they can be explained as authentic, and skepticism still prevails.
There's a whole school of fine art photography (gallery work, however you name it) that is composites of photoshop
images. One artist did a whole series on crazy decadent prep school students in which he posed as all of the students
in various wigs and clothes, even to the class picture. I don't see photo images the same anymore, and likely few do.
to hire him to do their advertising photos. It would pay off. It is intriguing the way photoshop has revised the
way we see photos, once the essence of true documentation, though even pre-photoshop, images were widely
and significantly manipulated. I know I presume photoshop where it hasn't been used. A recent ad shows a
guy perched on an impossibly narrow ledge on the side of a rock face. I just assumed they'd clicked him there
at no risk to his person. It turns out, he's a climber who often scales shear faces with no safety lines; it's what
he does. But images are presumed doctored until they can be explained as authentic, and skepticism still prevails.
There's a whole school of fine art photography (gallery work, however you name it) that is composites of photoshop
images. One artist did a whole series on crazy decadent prep school students in which he posed as all of the students
in various wigs and clothes, even to the class picture. I don't see photo images the same anymore, and likely few do.
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