First Official Portrait of Kate Middleton

[spring-peeper]

Still would not explain why they would not use her real children....

 

[Humberto]

i mean you might speculate she has self-harmed or been seriouslly harmed. But the image has been manipulated amidst questons about where she has gone.

 

[Flavour]

This is all quite fabulous. The kids hands look like they were generated by AI.

 

[Signal 11]

You could maybe get issues like that with a photo if it's combining several frames for HDR and the people are moving.

A standard and commonly used approach to obtain an HDR image is the multiple exposures' fusion technique which consists of combining multiple images of the same scene with varying exposure times. However, if the scene is not static during the sequence acquisition, moving objects manifest themselves as ghosting artefacts in the final HDR image.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0923596512000306

The newer iphones can get some weird effects due to the "ai" image processing too, like this.

 

[spring-peeper]

This is all quite fabulous. The kids hands look like they were generated by AI.

Why though?
Are the children dead?

The whole thing makes no sense.

 

[Calamity1971]

Are the children dead?

That's some rabbit hole you've been down.

 

[JimW]

Not been such a big scandal about a royal touching up since Andrew got exposed.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Twitter is on fire with it!
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This one I don't understand; it's entirely possible to cross middle over ring finger Have I fallen for a Wolfcastle?

This is seriously unhinged


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But yes, regardless of anything else, unhinged is exactly the word for this. Even for the Mail, this reads like a parody.

 

[Calamity1971]

This one I don't understand; it's entirely possible to cross middle over ring finger Have I fallen for a Wolfcastle?

I can't do it without nearly dislocating my other fingers. Plus try doing it with index folded in?

 

[ElizabethofYork]

This whole thing is bonkers. Conspiracy theories out of control!

 

[weepiper]

The fingers thing is a red herring. Little kids are flexible and I can do that with my fingers without too much effort anyway. It's the sort of thing a kid might do to distract themselves from a slightly stressful formal situation where they're being directed to stand a certain way and smile.

 

[Glitter]

This is clearly what happened

 

[JimW]

It's surely just a shoddy bit of post-processing though you'd think they or the teams they hire might realise they can't get away with what others might on social media. Though probably no-one would have noticed if they'd gone full cutesy filter.

 

[ID47]

Maybe I should take this to suburban, but can anyone identify the plant, and if is should have all its leaves first week of March?

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It is reassuring to see the royal painter and decorator is about as good as me with masking tape on window frames.


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Weather inside a vivarium isn't governed by the seasons but by the need to keep the cold blooded warm.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I can't do it without nearly dislocating my other fingers. Plus try doing it with index folded in?

The fingers thing is a red herring. Little kids are flexible and I can do that with my fingers without too much effort anyway. It's the sort of thing a kid might do to distract themselves from a slightly stressful formal situation where they're being directed to stand a certain way and smile.

Exactly. Or 39 year olds

In my case, think it's a bit of an ND thing (both the habit, but also the ability, apparently), but I twist my fingers in knots all the time.

 

[Spymaster]

You could maybe get issues like that with a photo if it's combining several frames for HDR and the people are moving.



The newer iphones can get some weird effects due to the "ai" image processing too, like this.

This. Digital sensors sometimes produce odd results due to image combining.

Check out my right arm in this pic where I'm holding the crutch:



Nothing that has been mentioned in the press about the image is particularly unusual, except perhaps that she's not wearing a wedding ring.

Apparently also the shrub behind them "is in full bloom despite it being March". I'm looking out of the window now and it seems like every bush in this part of London, as well as a few cherry trees are misbehaving for this time of year.

 

[rubbershoes]

If it's been withdrawn do I have to remove my copy from above the mantelpiece?

 

[JimW]

Though it is sobering to think that if they're willing to harvest Kate Middleton's stomach bile then replace her with a shoddy photoshop, none of us are safe, which is the only sensible interpretation of this chilling series of events.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

This whole thing is bonkers. Conspiracy theories out of control!

It is. The industrial levels of wild and unsubstantiated online conspiraloonery is quite scary to witness. And that photo gets more eerie the more you look at it..regardless of whether its been photoshopped!

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Heh, they are so fucking shit they can’t even take a photo without it going tits up. And if you dive in in to the cesspit that is The Mail you may see them being not so rabid about slagging off Harry and what’s her face. Tide’s turning for the Prince of Pegging…

 

[steveo87]

 

[Plumdaff]

It is astonishing that an institution whose only job is PR can be this fucking shit at it. I suppose if your institution is based on the premise that we're all adoring, cap-doffing plebs you might underestimate the ability to spot a shitty photoshop.

If William turns out to be an obvious rotter in the public's imagination then they might be in deep trouble, eh? This could be interesting.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

And as to The Fragrant Kate’s disappearing act, truth is she went on a Jaegermeister and Coke bender on New Year’s Eve and came to on 3rd January with a large swastika tattoo in a prominent place. When she does actually reappear you’ll see she sports a massive lobster tat and there’ll be some bumflufferies in the press about King George the something or other having been in to ink and this is her tribute to him.

Pound the server fund if I’m wrong on this.

 

[steveo87]

Maybe they're all dead?!

 

[pinkmonkey]

Well I never expected the firm to put out something almost as bad as the entirely ai generated Royal Family fan pages.

 

[pinkmonkey]

And another, maybe Kate has taken the kids and run away to the woods, she doesn’t look well. Been roughing it in a tent.

 

[Storm Fox]

If it's been withdrawn do I have to remove my copy from above the mantelpiece?

Only after singing God Save the King 3 times while saluting and lowering the flag in your garden to half-mast. Otherwise, you are no true patriot.

 

[tommers]

Finally realised what the kids remind me of:

 

[brogdale]

When the obsequious state broadcaster leads with the story, there's an issue for the RF:

 

[PR1Berske]