To not understand the fuss about this photo?

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Why is it all over the news about the Princess of Wales’ photograph being “manipulated “ (I assume that means it was photoshopped)

Am I missing something or have the media just lost the plot? It’s a photo? Who cares if she made some changes to it? I’m not sure how that makes our lives any different. Quite frankly, I find it absurd that this is even being given airtime when there’s much more important issues to be concerned about e.g. Gaza/Israel, Ukraine and cost of living!

She was in the car earlier she is clearly alive stressed and under pressure but alive

Because media agencies (Getty, AP, etc) can’t reject the image without an explanation, they have a reputation to protect.

It’s absolutely right that companies verify the integrity of photographs.

What you’re suggesting - that the agencies accept obviously doctored images because it’s ‘just a mum with her 3 kids’ - is absurd because it’s not just any mum and it reveals an ignorance of how the media works.

The news and photo agencies need to uphold their journalistic integrity (I’m not taking about the spin put on the stories/photos by the papers - how the mail reports something will be different to the BBC etc, but the actual original source provided by the agencies). If they accept images which have been shown to be heavily doctored/created artificially it undermines their reliability. If there was a mocked up photo of an atrocity that was passed off as real it has significant real world implications (a mock up of a soldier committing war crimes for example). If a fake photo of the royals doing something untoward was accepted by the agencies as legitimate they’d be the first to complain. If you can’t trust the agency or nobody is maintaining a journalistic standard then we may as well just go all in with fake news. The royal family are not above this.

It won’t be as minor as some photoshop tweaks (whiter teeth, smoothing away frizzy hair etc) - those are accepted from this sort of photo. Clearly the edits go above and beyond this though and the palace has refused to issue to undoctered image to help clear up the situation. To be ‘killed’ there has to be legitimate concerns that the photo (or elements of it) is fake.

It’s not a big deal for the reason people think it is (gossip/conspiracy theories about the royal family) but because it proves the royal family are happy to lie or manipulate images propaganda style and undermine the authenticity and journalistic integrity of the news agencies. There was no need for them to release any photo, certainly no need for them to try and pull the wool over the eyes of the press and public.

It's ridiculous. People are acting as if she's killed someone's puppy, rather than published a photoshopped picture

I hear ya!

I saw the photo on the news this morning and literally couldn’t see where all this photoshopping had occurred 😂 either I’m visually challenged or people have too much time on their hands looking with magnifying glasses - there may also be a third option but I couldn’t see anything that looked weird about the photo!
There was talk about the little girls sleeve/cuff? Looked normal to me! And one of the boys had his fingers crossed - nothing especially unusual about that is there?

Can one of you photography experts explain what you mean by a fake photo? You keep saying it’s not just teeth whitening and hair smoothing. So what is it? What do you think is going on in the photo? Are you saying these four people didn’t pose like this, together? That they were added separately? Nobody is saying what they suspect. Just that something is up.

Apparently not if we are to believe the news picture agencies.

How do you know that every photo is edited, are you in that line of work?

It's pretty obvious once pointed out that the hand/sleeve has been altered, have another look and I'm sure you'll see it

I'm not claiming to have noticed, I didn't look in any detail but once youve been told the eidts are obvioua

It is really ridiculous and quite shameful really.

It looks like someone else was sat in the middle of the children and Kate’s head has been superimposed. Parts of her hair are blurred and around her hands. There’s a glitch in the pattern on the boy on the left of the picture’s shoulder. Charlotte is wearing one flat boot and one appears to have a heel. The cuff of her cardigan is misaligned with her arm.

I think this is probably about right.

By now though, given all the speculation, the best thing IMO would be for her to appear in public properly, even if she does look rough.

No its not!

If Kate had passed away they couldn't keep it secret forever 😂also how would they explain the mothers day photo that came to be in the first place? Sorry I know you didn't say this but can't find the post you are referencing.

https://twitter.com/royal_suitor/status/1767248453602890217?t=EWgqwRfoZzajVg_FgWXuog&s=19

Because it's not a true, original photo. Given the huge amount of speculation about her wellbeing, it's bizarre to release a picture to the world's media (who given AI and digital manipulation, carefully scrutinise every photo), that is so obviously massively edited, to the degree that her head is very likely taken from her Vogue photo shoot. Stupid? Arrogant? Incompetent?

If your a mum doin a bit of light editing for FB-no one cares

if you are doing an official (their website) release portrait (it’s formal/static rather than an action shot) with multiple edits it seems dishonest and peculiar to heavily edit small features

when I first saw it I thought some thing was off but couldn’t figure it out

there is a a lot of blurred edges

There must be something seriously wrong with her if they can't publish a photo that isn't edited yet they let this one fly 😂

Oh god poor man he looks so frail. 😲

So what. I edit lots of my photos. Like anyone else she is totally entitled to do this.....people are reading into it way too much, surely they do this all the time?!

It’s totally a fake photo. Everyone knows she’s on the moon.

Its not just you.

Whatever her illness, it comes at a time where many are struggling to access medical care, and sick and disabled people are being told to get back to work. Not many people can decide that they're just not going to engage until they feel like it. Again, I don't think she should be denied that but its a shame the rest of us aren't treated with the same compassion. For a family that want to appear relatable this is about as far from the common experience as it gets.

I don't dislike her personally, I just hate the system.

Women on politics live today called it a national scandal! Ffs!

Really isn't such a scandal and I'm suspicious they only killed the photo to force the rumours into overdrive and force her to come out into public which sort of worked she came out but refused to look at the camera

And I don't blame her

The public do not like being lied to. The photo was released to create the impression that the Duchess of C is fine and well, but now it appears that the image was falsified. That leads the public to infer that something is wrong, because if everything was fine a falsified image would not be needed.

It's pretty wild looking from outside the UK

Is it really? It’s just a photo of a mom and her kids