Lovely photo of Catherine for Mothering Sunday

So are we now saying the press should lie to protect people that seems a bit odd considering the usual uproar about press behaviour.

maddyone

Does it matter if the photo was photoshopped? It’s a nice photo of a mother with her children on Mother’s Day.

I think it matters.
It is a trust issue.

If it has been altered, or is fake in some way, what is going on?

How ridiculous.

I am not a royalist but I did use to admire their PR machine, it was excellent, I wonder if that was the Queens influence, this does seem odd.

I am annoyed that a photoshopped image is being presented as fact.

Good for the press taking this out of circulation.
I know it may be as simple as overlaying two or three photos to get the best facial expressions of everyone in it (with photos taken just seconds apart) but a professional photographer wouldn't allow this to happen.
It is wrong to present doctored photos for publication- and it's not the 1st time they have doctored photos.

I had professional photos of my work done a few years ago and noticed afterwards a small thread that should have been pulled through to the back of the work as part of my "finishing off" process. My photographer wouldn't edit it out but said if I wanted to do that (once I'd threaded the end of the thread to the back then he wouldn't complain. He would, however, keep only the original on his records.

When Catherine first started publishing her own family photos, they were criticised as being too ‘amateur’, the light wasn’t right, or there was too much shadow etc.

Seems that like most things, these photos now need to be totally amateur and untouched, warts and all, or completely professional with no hidden airbrushing or similar.

They can’t win. The idea was to publish a happy family photo of a mother and her family, with mum well on the way to recovery after an operation. Instead, it’s created more speculation and probably left Catherine feeling like facing the public again will be a huge trauma.

Not ideal.

Good point, BlueBelle

A plant that shouldn’t be in leaf but is
No wedding ring
Louis’ fingers are crossed and it looks odd
Charlottes left wrist
I think George’s left wrist also looks odd.

Surely you would have just retaken the photo if it wasn’t right?

Unless William took so long pfaffing about that they all got fed up and cobbled something together from some old photos.

I suppose once you are photoshopping things then it could be a body-double with Catherine's head.

I think the garden is irrelevant. I tead we are 4 weeks early this year.

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Thanks NotSpaghetti

Can I give a illustration of how I feel photoshopping can be a complete lie
I love to get up early and take pictures of the sunrise from my nearby beach I never photoshop as I think the beauty is in itself often after I get home I ll see a sunrise photo on FB or a similar site even on the local news with brilliant deep red, scarlets, purples, oranges that just didn’t exist It’s a lie and it never fails to irritate me especially with all the comments of how marvellous it is, what a fantastic sunrise etc etc
I have never photoshopped a picture
I and my photos are what they are
The royals should be much more aware and careful they are young and knowledgable and should stay above lies and illusions if they don’t want comments and theories

I think it was taken 25 years ago judging by the children’s old fashioned clothes.

NotSpaghetti

I suppose once you are photoshopping things then it could be a body-double with Catherine's head.

I think the garden is irrelevant. I tead we are 4 weeks early this year.

You're right, a whole body can be photoshopped and replaced with one from a different moment in time. When DD's wedding photos came back, I cried because there weren't any of me alone with her, (they were all of DH with her in the car, at the church, down the aisle, giving her away etc). The canny photographer looked back over the images and chose one of me in the line up by the Thames taken a few hours later. He skilfully photoshpped me into a new image back the churchyard standing by DD's side. That was over 12 years ago so I would imagine it is current practice now.

Initially I thought what a lovely smiley photo.. now it’s reported four obscure points blurry not in focus Kate’s right hand and of course no rings .. not sure what to make of it…

Lovely photo.

I wish the press would stop calling her Kate Middleton. She is Catherine Princess of Wales. That’s her title now ,

Magsymoo

Apparently the tree in the background is in leaf to a greater extent than it would be in early March. So the speculation is that this photo was taken at a different time of year. I don’t care either way but I’m fed up of being lied to by government and is the RF now also treating us like idiots?

This is more or less what I said on another thread, which I've now deleted. I mentioned the tree, which I wasn't absolutely sure about, but I've now noticed that there's something unnatural about the whole photo. Catherine's head looks as if it's been photoshopped on. I think the issue of Charlotte's hand, whether it's been changed or not, is irrelevant. I can't imagine anyone objecting to that. It just doesn't look 'real' to me - the whole photo. I am usually a great fan of the Wales's, but I'm just not sure about this photo.

The conspiracy theorists are going to love this.

there's a NEW thread .

since the photo has been withdrawn by major press outlets.

I am not in any shape or form a conspiracy theorist. I think this photograph was produced in an attempt to stop the media speculating about the future of the RF, now that two of them are out of action. It's a pity the Wales's felt the need to do that, but having done so they should have made sure it looked right. Instead it's just made things worse. They should have done as the late Queen would have done - say and do nothing. Catherine was planning on reappearing at Easter - that should have been sufficient, but in our media hungry times it seems it's not. Sadly.

A Tale of Two Royals:

One gives details of his illness with reassuring comments and glimpses of him taking on as much as he can. His wife, in the meantime, takes on extra engagements.

The other one releases the briefest of details that were always going to lead to wild speculation the longer it went on. Even a happy family photo is not all it seems.
Her husband, in the meantime, takes on fewer engagements and behaves rather oddly.

I respect their desire to keep Kate’s health issues private but as my granny used to say, ‘The truth will out!’

Whoever edited the photo has just played right into the conspiracy-theorists' hands.

The Palace, if they insist on mucking about with photos like this, should just employ a much better photo-editor. Simples.

I think that it was a mistake for William to reduce his engagements like he did, really.

I just heard on the BBC News that he was ‘caring for his wife’, which I suppose in his way he was, but he wasn’t doing it all single-handed like many husbands in a similar situation would have to.

Cooking meals, housework, school runs, actually ‘looking after’ his wife, he would have huge support in all that.

So his time off did seem slightly self indulgent.

It’s ironic that this photo was specifically taken to quell the inevitable media speculation about Catherine and her health, but has now raised even more questions.

It will be interesting to see what the response from the Palace is.