Kate Middleton's Mother's Day photo appears manipulated?

Wasn't the image lifted from Twitter anyway?
 
Wasn't the image lifted from Twitter anyway?
No. Buckingham Palace released it to news agencies to distribute around the world.

It's a (poor) creative image, not a news image, which is the problem.
 
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One isn't wearing a ring on one's left hand
 
That's what I thought! The picture's said to be taken by William, so a smartphone camera is a possibility here?
The Guardian, with access to the EXIF data, say the picture was taken with a Canon 50mm f/1.2 lens, which probably rules out the smartphone hypothesis

 
Some twitter person has suggested Kate’s head is from a Vogue cover from a few years ago.
 
Who cares , Not me , Millions of people edit images.
 
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New statement from C:

B. hell not using LR/google photos (pick your poison) again
 
Who cares , Not me , Millions of people edit images.
Aye. But they don't then send them to press agencies with an embargo for release on Mothers Day. ;)

The real issue is why those agencies didn't pick up on the alterations (20 according to the Graun) before releasing the picture.
 
I think I know what the photographer has done:

Taken multiple images, a burst, or more than one burst, and merged a number of them into one. I don't know if the merging's been done manually or otherwise.

Personally I think it's a good technique, you capture everyone smiling/laughing/eye-contact, 4 x split second actions in one. OK, you may need just 2 or 3 shots to get all 4 looking the way you want. Then there's the hands, added interest, doing something interesting/different, nothing rude.

The result is normally better, less rigid than the old "say cheese" technique.
 
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I think I know what the photographer has done:

Taken multiple images, a burst, or more than one burst, and merged a number of them into one. I don't know if the merging's been done manually or otherwise.

Personally I think it's a good technique, you capture everyone smiling/laughing/eye-contact, 4 x split second actions in one. OK, it may have taken just 2 or 3 shots to get all 4 looking the way you want. Then there's the hands, added interest, doing something interesting/different, nothing rude. The result is normally better, less rigid than the old "say cheese" technique.

yeah i suspect its quite innocent i mean the poor lass just wanted to pop out a nice family piccy
 
Yeah, nothing in my theory for the conspirators to latch on to.
 
Yeah, nothing in my theory for the conspirators to latch on to.
Conspirisy theorists will find something where there is nothing because they want to find something.
ie NASA didnt send anyone to the moon it was all done in the desert.
 
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