View Full Version : Weird photos on NYTimes - screen grabs


Fitz Townsend
August 6th, 2010, 05:50 PM
New Paths in the Mideast - Slide Show - NYTimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/08/06/fashion/20100808-abroad-slideshow.html)

What do you guys think about these photographs, in a NYTimes slideshow?

They look totally weird to me. Esp. that rollercoaster one.

Think they are all frame grabs?

Andrew Smith
August 7th, 2010, 08:52 AM
Interesting colour treatment. It's almost like when you have video that is under exposed, then you correct it, and have to boost the saturation to resurrect something worthy of watching.

A bit like what I did with some VHS footage that I "rescued" off tape recently.

Kris Cline testimony (circa 1990) on Vimeo

Andrew

Bryan Cantwell
August 9th, 2010, 12:58 PM
That does seem to be a LOT of processing for "news" pictures... Some of the backgrounds, the roller coaster & the "students on break" pics especially, look very very suspect.

Graham Hickling
August 9th, 2010, 01:54 PM
That grainyness ... still image function off a videocam? Or some sort of POV cam? (The rollercoaster one though is just wacky.)

Giroud Francois
August 9th, 2010, 02:17 PM
the restaurant is just wrong with light.(look the dull background, no shadows and the foreground table with sunset shadows)